Frequently Asked Questions
What is Telemedicine?
The American Telemedicine Association defines Telemedicine as “the remote delivery of health care services and clinical information using telecommunications technology” and can involve the use of internet, wireless, telephone, and satellite. To learn more about Telemedicine, please visit the American Telemedicine Association FAQ page.
What is Telepsychiatry?
Telepsychiatry is the practice of psychiatry-specific telemedicine. The field of psychiatry is inherently well-suited to using telemedicine techniques as there is generally no physical exam component involved during appointments. These days, most telepsychiatry is done via real-time televideo-conferencing methods very similar to a Skype or FaceTime session. As long as you are at a location with reasonably fast internet access, you can see an online psychiatrist for your appointment.
Why See an Online Psychiatrist?
Efficient high-quality care. Research has shown that patients receiving telepsychiatry care are just as comfortable with their psychiatrists as patients receiving in-person psychiatric care, with similarly positive treatment outcomes. And because telepsychiatry appointments can be conducted from the patient’s home or office, hundreds of hours can potentially be saved each year from no longer needing to travel to and from the psychiatrist’s office or sitting in waiting rooms.
Recommended Books/Resources:
Mind over Mood: Change How you feel by changing the way you think
The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
The Mindful Way Through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness
How we Choose to Be Happy: The 9 Choices of Extremely Happy People--Their Secrets, Their Stories
Self Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself
The 5 Love Languages Singles Edition: The Secret That Will Revolutionize Your Relationships
The Conscious Parent: Transforming Ourselves, Empowering Our Children
Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls
Bipolar Disorder: A Guide for Patients and Families
I Dont Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression
Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames
Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy
The Disappearing Girl: Learning the Language of Teenage Depression
Women with Attention Deficit Disorder
The Couple's Guide to Thriving with ADHD
What Postpartum Depression Feels Like
Postpartum Depression and the African American Community
Helpful Websites:
The Role of technology in Pediatric Behavioral healthcare
Neurobehavioral Counseling & Consulting
NAMI: National Alliance on Mental Illness
https://nbhospitals.com/programs/
Publications/Contributions
How to build a meaningful mom tribe
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10746963/
Peer-reviewed publications:
Miller BH, Schultz LE, Gulati A, Pletcher MT. Phenotypic characterization of a genetically diverse panel of mice for behavioral despair and anxiety. PLos One 2010.
Miller BH, Schultz LE, Gulati A, et al. Haplotype -based genetic genetic analysis of behavioral despair in inbred mouse strains. BMC Biology. 2009
Schneyer AL, Sidis, Y, Gulati, A et al. Differential Antagonism of Activin, Myostatin, and GDF11 by Wild Type and Mutant Follistatin. Endocrinology 2008.
Miller, B.H., Schultz, L.E., Gulati, A, et al. Genetic Regulation of Behavioral and Neuronal Responses to Fluoxetine. Neuropsychopharmacology 2008.
Miller, B.H., Gulati, A,, and Pletcher, M.T. Strain-dependent behavioral and neuronal responses to fluoxetine. Neuroscience. Abstr., 2006
Oral/Poster Presentations:
Fleisch, S, Gulati, A, Watson,A. UNC Homeless Support Program: Developing a Street Outreach Community Rotation for Psychiatry Residents. International Street Medicine Symposium. October 2013. Boston, MA
Schneyer, A, Sidis, Y., Keutmann, H., Gulati, A, Sun, J., and Krasney, P. Follistatin Binding To Activin And Myostatin Involves Partially Distinct Contact Regions: Implications For Development Of Ligand-Specific Antagonists. The Endocrine Society’s 89th Annual Meeting, Oral/Poster presentation, 2006
Thesis Research:
Gulati, A. Identification of Follistatin Mutations that Differentially Bind and Inhibit TGF-B Family Members Myostatin and Activain A (Funded by Pfizer, Inc.) Department of Reproductive Endocrinology, Harvard Medical School, 2005-2008
Thesis Research Summary: My investigations identified molecules that can inhibit myostatin, a negative regulator of muscle growth, thereby increasing muscle mass, and therefore quality of health, in patients with disease related cachexia (ex. Cancer, AIDS patients) without the side effects resulting from concurrent inhibition of related proteins.
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