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Va Beach, VA 23462 USA
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Writer, Speaker, Neuroscientist and Psychiatric Consultant – Translating Emerging New Brain and Body Science for Both Public and Professionals.
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Overview
New scientific evidence changes core psychiatric care, everyday.
For years many considered psychiatry a belief system filled with dreams, abstractions, and little reality. Even today, many assert that ADD is a character problem, and SPECT brain imaging is modern snake oil.
But now, let’s travel beyond “belief systems.” New evidence, facts do count. Psychiatry has evolved to include the latest research in molecular and cellular biology, and brain physiology – neuroscience. Everyday practice has moved from fantasies and dreams – to include reality.
New questions with new answers increasingly drive treatment interventions. Brain and body “biologic systems” can be measured for their function and specifically treated based upon solid molecular and cellular laboratory evidence.
And on this new path we don’t forget the past. Traditional interventions remain valid. Advances in biotechnology and neuroscience simply offer more comprehensive treatment strategies.
Bio:
Dr Charles Parker, Medical Director of CorePsych, provides both personal consultation and professional training to address the multiplicity of challenges present in psychiatry today. With the abundant changes in the technology of information delivery he is available for time saving virtual consultation and presentations anywhere.
Publications:
1. Deep Recovery, - about the lessons of difficult relationships and recovery from any repetitive pattern – is available at Amazon and in the office. Please call if Amazon is out.
2. ADHD: The current book details the medical challenges often found with diagnosis and treatment of ADHD. Please sign up here for some pre-publication savings and updates on the publication date – “The Patient’s Guide for ADHD Medications – What To Do When Nothing is Working.”
If you are one of the many people downstream from the multiple problems with ADHD medications, please sign up for that book as well. Look for a free white paper that will introduce you to the book at the sign in box at CorePsych Blog.
3. Drug Interactions: Trichotillomania: Apparent CYP 2D6 Interaction with Amphetamine and Paroxetine – Primary Psychiatry
3. Award winning Blogger: Wellsphere, Medpedia, Disease.com, Best ADHD Blogs, Best Brain Blogs, first post: Nov. 23, ‘06
Education
- Westminster College, Fulton, MO, BS: Biology, Minor: English
- Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, Phila, PA
- Adult Psychiatry: Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA
- Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: Hahnemann Med Center, Phila., PA [Chief Resident]
- Adult Psychoanalysis: Philadelphia Association for Psychoanalysis
- Board Certified Adult Psych, Forensic Psych
- Life Fellow, American Psychiatric Association
- Board Certified Addiction Medicine – for 10 years
- Family and Interpersonal Mediation: Old Dominion University
- Coaching: Mentor Coach: International Coach Federation Accredited
- Licensed: Nuclear Regulatory Commission: Management of Radioisotopes – for use in Nuclear Medicine – 2003
Experience
- Visiting Professor, Psych Dept., Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, VA Inactive at this time.
- Active outpatient practice since early 70’s, Partner in Parker, Schlichter and Assoc. in Va Beach, VA
- Hospital programs: Management and Program Development from ~’78 to ~’92 including Executive Medical Director of Peninsula Hospital, Hampton, VA
- Management Consultant: Media Buying Firm National meetings: 1. Montauk, NY, 2. Times Square, NYC, and 3. Redgate, NJ, 4. Precast Concrete Manufacturers in Richmond, VA, and 5. Auto Sales & Management in Va Beach.
- Guest Creativity Consultant: With Dr Edward de Bono at Electronic Data Systems in Dallas [see the blog post].
- Program Development: Substance Abuse Treatment Centers and Providers, from Sun Valley ID, to Lafayette LA.
- Lectured: Psychopharmacology nationally for > 14 years to hundreds of medical colleagues identified with special interests in depression, antidepressants, and diagnosis and treatment for ADD: NYC, to Boston, LA, and Seattle, San Francisco
- Developed and managed as Chief Psychiatrist: Amen Clinic in Reston, VA near Washington, DC: SPECT brain imaging in clinical practice, began in ‘03, finished there in ‘07. Same SPECT materials, often different conclusions and recommendations.
- Continue Active SPECT Image Evaluation Practice: reviewing for second opinions, managing the scan process, thousands of scan review hours, since 2003. Patient Care Coordinator will give more details on that page.
- Neuroscience Consultant: Spero Retreat, Beverly Hills, CA; Patrick Carnes, PhD IITAP & Gentle Path; LifeBridge Diagnostics, SPECT Imaging, Melbourne, FL.
- Teleconference coaching and teleseminar presentations from ‘98 with clients from Japan, Iceland, Ecuador, Israel, England, Scotland and Alaska
- Society for Nuclear Medicine,
- American Medical Association, Medical Society of Virginia, Virginia Beach Med Society
- Institute for Functional Medicine
Resume: CV Updated May 08
On a personal note:
- Eagle Scout, and God and Country Award: Merit badges and years of church service
- Bailed hay and caught chickens in Indiana. It was great fun. [See the post on agrarian guilt.]
- Picked cotton [3 seasons] and shoveled concrete on the roads [3 yrs] in Missouri. Never again. The roads will teach you chain-gang teamwork.
- Organic gardener and beekeeper for years. Lessons: with the bees: stay natural, remain calm with a big buzz, – and regarding worm composting: meaningless scraps can heal the garden.
- Attended Culver Military Academy, ‘60G. Trumpet in the Band [wrong specialty], wonderful team, still in contact.
- Sold furnace cleanings door to door in metro West Philadelphia. Going into those homes and meeting the families: Unforgettable.
- Read my poetry in Philadelphia clubs with physician colleague Dr Ashley Angert playing backup classical guitar: it was a very different time applause was snapping the fingers. Peace Brother.
- Black Belt: Shotokan Karate, Dr Hamada, Hanshi – International Chairperson of the Dai Nippon Butoku Kai, Japan [Oldest Japanese Martial Arts Society]. Got hit a few times.
- Outdoor writer, salt water fly fisherman, Spey fishing enthusiast. It’s like dancing in the woods.
- Quite a tour, from Missouri farms to metro psychoanalysis, SPECT imaging, neurotransmitter precursors, and molecular and cellular physiology. In 40 years, we have evolved from questions about sexual fantasies and dreams to very specific interest in bowel movements, PMS, exposure to mold, an biomarkers for neurotransmitters.
- From a start with mind – back to include body, with little left behind. Most interesting: how the biological body facts do fit with the mind work and the clinical stories.
Products:
DVDs
1. Brain School 101: How New Evidence Changes Psychiatric Practice 1.5 hr available April 2010
2. The Impulsive Brain: 1. ADHD, 2. Bipolar, 3. Brain Injury, 4. Addiction Medicine each part 1.5 hr, available June 2010
CDs
1. ADHD: Beyond Labels into Clinical Assessment of Brain Function
2. Holistic Psychiatry: Comprehensive Changes in Psychiatric Care – including new insights into hormones, immune system issues, and neurotransmitter imbalances effecting brain function. 1 hr
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What is the best way to recommend you to two people I know. One with a teenage child diagnosed with Aspburgers and two others with adult children that I think have been diagnosed with bi-polar syndrome.
Faye,
We do virtual/phone consults anywhere in the world. If the person needs meds they do have to come into the Va Beach office if they want me to write for those meds. I can recommend testing, read testing, and recommend supplements anywhere as they are not controlled, and we are far more precise in our measurements and assessments than most are in the first place.
Best to drop an email to our Admin person here at CorePsych.
Thanks, hope we can pitch in!
cp
Dr. Parker,
I’m a big overwhelmed and lost with the sheer magnitude of your articles, price lists, comments, video clips, etc. Very imformative but going on hour 38 of a migraine…just not processing. However Hamada Sensei & I go way back- I worked for him as a tutor in highschool and even went to Japan as the ‘Group Leader’, such an amazing man!
The ’summary’ of my questions:
- I have migraine/cluster headaches. I have some sort of headache almost every day of my life with averaging of 2 full blown migraines that bring me to my knees. Seen more neurologists than I care to with almost no improvement despite the numerous different types of meds I’ve tried. Have been a ‘headache’ sufferer now going on 15 years and to the point that I’m extermeley alarmed by how much pain med I’m having to take just to survive.
-That being said what is the overview of the process that I would need to undergo for this speific type of problem and is it a specific course with a begining or ending or more of a therapy approach with ongoing sessions. What type of fees am i looking at as I’m guessing this is not covered by insurance.
- How is this specific work different than neurofeedback/eeg therapy?
Thanks for the help!
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Liz,
All of these questions depend upon just how much testing you need and what insurance you have for the testing. If you have Optima, it will be more expensive simply because they are so completely penurious on any testing, unless it is for acute, live or die conditions. If your regular MD helps with the referral over to my office, and requests the testing below specifically that might help with those testing fees, but I doubt it with Optima. BC/BS and any other significant insurance will pay for most testing. Optima is ridiculous.
Regarding the other fees please call Caitlin at X203 on the Admin page and she can discuss fees with you.
The main reason for your inquiry has a more interesting answer. Migraines, already reviewed by neurologists as not having a more ominous origin, are often directly related to a mix of neurotransmitter challenges [measurable], hormones [measurable], and immune dysfunction [measurable].
I hope it works out to see you, and as much as I would like to, won’t spend a lot of your time on Sensei, Dr Hamada.
Talk soon,
cp
Dr Charles Parker,
I saw a very interesting doccumentary on HBO , concerning the research being done on panic disorder,
I always thought it may be due to excess stress and problems with neurotransmitters, but they are finding that
some how the CO2 receptor in the brain may be sending signals to the thymus gland to release the fight or flight hormones
causing the panic attack. This may be a more organic type problem than a simple stress related problem.
I remember when I was EMT we worried about sudden death in infants that can occur due to a underactive CO2 sensor, this was thought to be triggered by a virus infection or maybe genetic, I wonder if there’s a trigger for the onset of panic attacks due to a viral infection in the brain.
They also showed dramatic changes in the brain the is controled by the thymus, it was evident in the brain images they did.
Doug
This documentary involved several of the large Neurology Colleges and their research.
This would be useful for people who suffer chronic panic disorder to understand its possible something beyond their control.
Doug,
Thanks for the update, will be interested to have the connection for our readers, and will look forward to checking it out. – So many interesting paths… we just need to keep them all straight.
cp
Do you do phone consultations? You were recommended by the man who owns Jigsaw Health in Scottsdale, Arizona.
I am searching for someone who is qualified to help in the areas of anxiety and depression. I have been in touch with Hyla Cass, but feel she is just out to sell her products.
Regards,
Diane Lindenberger
Diane,
Yes we do consult by phone, but only treat with an office visit. Will reply with additional details offline.
cp
Hey Doc Parker, This is Steve from Tulsa Oklahoma. I just want to say thank you. You are a blessing and a terrific help as well. So much so that, My Psych, highly respected, in Tulsa is now handing out your piece on “The Theraputic Window” to each new ADD/ADHD patient that comes to his practice. He said you were right on with your ideas. Way to go. Your a Good Man and much appreciated.
With much Respect,
A long time follower,
Steve Marvel
Tulsa, Ok
js_marvel@cox.net
Steve,
I am really thrilled he likes it and very much appreciate your taking the time to drop me a note on the Window. I am vigorously writing away all weekend, and if he like that one, he will love the book….
Thanks so much!
cp