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
Richmond Times
February 24, 2009
Sometime in the near future, modern psychiatry’s unborn holy book, the DSM-V, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, will arrive. In fact, an early draft of the fifth edition of this guidebook of diagnostic criteria for mental disorders, which mental health professionals, researchers, health insurance companies, [...]

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 [...]

Tragedy in the Home
WUSA9.com
April 4, 2007
Alen J. Salerian, MD quoted
By Leslie Foster
(WUSA) — Parents taking their own children’s lives, then their own. It seems unthinkable. In just over a week, two communities and two families know all two well that it can happen. Last week, a Frederick father killed his four kids then [...]

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The Forensic Examiner
Spring 2005
Alen J. Salerian, MD and Gregory H. Salerian, MCSW

The Sunday Times (UK)
February 24, 2002
By John Harlow, Los Angeles

A PSYCHIATRIST who has studied the medical records of Franklin D Roosevelt, one of the greatest American presidents, claims he gave up a large area of eastern Europe to Joseph Stalin in the final stages of the second world war because he was gripped by clinical [...]

Los Angeles Times
Commentary
February 11, 2002
Put a Psychiatrist in His Corner
By Alen J. Salerian, MD
The Nevada State Athletic Commission delivered a stinging blow that hurt Mike Tyson badly when it denied him a boxing license Jan. 29.
Yet no one seems willing to extend a helping hand to rescue the powerful fighter from the demons of the [...]

How to Survive Torture
MAXIM
September 2001
Alen J. Salerian, MD quoted