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Dr Charles Parker

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5029 Corporate Woods Dr, Ste 250
Va Beach, VA, 23462

757.473.3770 Ext 203

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Writer, Psychiatrist, Neuroscience Investigator

CV: CV Updated last May 08

Brief Bio: Brief 1 Page Bio and Connections pdf

National speaker to medical groups and the public – topics include:

• Psychopharmacology: Using medications correctly, within the framework of science, using very specific interview questions, that specifically identify treatment targets beyond simple description.
• The Impulsive Brain: One Day Review of The Science of Brain and Behavior with Impulsivity – Presented in Scottsdale at IITAP, Beverly Hills for Spero Retreat, Wash DC for Psychotherapy Networker, and Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA Oct 09.
• Neurotransmitter Precursors: Taking healthy brain and body interventions to the next level with evaluation of neurotransmitter levels, biomarkers for brain neurochemistry, and specific use of targeted precursors.
• Diagnosis and Treatment: The current diagnostic manual is operationally useful to those who think only descriptively, but can limit thinking when designing more comprehensive, functional and precise treatment strategies.
• Brain Imaging: SPECT imaging is indeed useful, predictive, and provides excellent evidence for many of the disorders in the office including undiagnosed brain injury, metabolic challenges, Alzheimer’s and other Dementia, yes, even ADHD – I worked for years with Daniel Amen MD, as Chief Psychiatrist of Amen DC. While Amen is a serious thought leader, I disagree on some of his SPECT Process details – e.g. how to read and report, and how to use brain imaging information in the office – and the interface with evolved psychopharmacology and neurotransmitter balance. We differ on the application: I am more specific than his team. Generally speaking, his reports are repetitive, superficial, and insufficiently customized for the person in the office.
• Metabolic and Cellular Physiology and Brain Function: Not a researcher, can report with certainty the usefulness of measuring immune system dysfunction for brain disorders. See the Useful References page here.
• The Consequences of Hormone Dysregulation on Brain Function: Often overlooked, the consequences of assessment and correction of these issues using good available evidence is often dramatic. See the Useful References page here.

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Brief Bio is Here: With an overview work history, and additional background from Missouri and Indiana.

Author: Two Books

• Deep Recovery: How to Use Your Most Difficult Relationships to Find Out Who You Are - 1992 Hawkeye Press, [Deep Recovery] Specifics regarding finding the balance point with self and others and how it fits into the complexity of the recovery process – when you realize the limitations of your own control.
• The Patient’s Guide For ADHD Medications – What To Do When Nothing Is Working - Book due out Fall 09 – 1 Page Medications are often given with only superficial thinking about the pharmacology and the diagnosis – specific treatment objectives will improve patient care, as does engaging the patient in the process.
• Hosted my own cable TV show [on addiction medicine] back in the early 90′s,
• Host an Internet Radio Program CorePsych Radio

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Some Additional History Not In Bio:
My mother was an remarkably dedicated family physician, my father was an engineer, a salesman and a fighter pilot [AT-6 and T-33 Flight Instructor during the Korean War], and my brother still takes call as a family physician. In the historical context of WWII and Korea, we were a nomadic family, searching for an identity in place and times – as *the front* and *war times* always seemed just around the next corner.

As a medical intern in Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1969, just after being classified 1-A during the Vietnam war, a friend recommended the book that significantly changed my life: Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics – it sounds too deep, but spoke about war, disputes, categorical thinking, labels, and the relationships between thinking and time. It drew me down the path of psychiatry, science, discovery and polemics – a place not unfamiliar, even today.

This year tallies 40 years of practicing psychiatry. The remarkable patient experiences [looking down the barrel of a loaded gun on call at Friends Hospital], the remarkable mentors [the psychoanalysts in Philadelphia], the Napoleonic psychiatrists, the genius colleagues, the unpredictable challenge of managed care… – contemporary practice continues to provide much more than Burma Shave interest along this particular two lane blacktop. Why stop working when we’re having this much fun?

Most dramatic and regularly observed ongoing psychiatric paradox:

Many use medications to treat ‘attention deficit’ labels – while not paying attention to the person and the details. Simply Unbelievable! – Inattention treating inattention. I have a master plan, am regularly writing about it, and will soon be sending out PR pieces to let you know the details about this challenging, ongoing ADHD medication conundrum. My plan to fix this problem is simple, ultra-scientific, replicable, and useful in everyday practice.

Digitally available now at Nook, Kindle, Barnes and Noble.
ADHD Medication Rules – PDF For Your Desktop  
ADHD Medication Rules | Paying Attention To The Meds For Paying Attention – Kindle Version