Washington Center For Psychiatry

New Brain Discoveries
Salerian Brain Laws #1 and #2 (SBL1 and SBL2):
Frontal Cortex Function and Dopamine Govern Mood and Executive Function

By Alen J. Salerian, MD
I am excited to share two of my discoveries of brain function and dysfunction, two novel theories I advance about the essence of all neuropsychiatric disorders.  Region specific dysfunction and abnormal neurotransmission [...]

By Alen J. Salerian, MD
The high point of my graduation from medical school was a dinner celebration on Princess Island off the coast of Istanbul as cheers and toasts were finally fading. I was surrounded by happy faces and watery eyes in all directions when my cousin Joe, a skinny, tall man known to us [...]

Making the Three Tenors Sing
Special to The Washington Post
Tuesday , June 20, 2000
By Alen J. Salerian, MD
During my first session with Sarah, a married, 40-year-old lawyer, she
complained about frustrating failures she had experienced in
treatment of her depression.
“After all this therapy and all these medications, I still don’t feel
like getting out of bed in the [...]