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Fairfax Mental Health
5675 Stone Road, Suite 320
Centreville, VA 20120703-830-1500 (phone)
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Fairfax Mental Health
7544 Gardner Park Drive
Gainesville, VA 20155703-830-1500 (phone)
703-830-0001 (fax)Fairfax, VA (Dr. Birchansky only)
Fairfax Mental Health
3611D Chain Bridge Road
Fairfax, VA 22030703-830-1500 (phone)
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Beverly Reader, M.D. on Postpartum Depression
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Fairfax Mental Health’s mission is to provide high-quality mental health treatment to each patient, identifying effective coping skills as well as providing tools and resources to meet their challenges. Each patient is treated with the individual attention, dignity and respect they deserve. It is done with the patient’s privacy and personal goals in mind. In doing this, we achieve our vision: to help people learn to make the critical initial positive changes in their lives to help them towards personal growth and healing.
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Category Archives: Nutrition
Obesity in College
The following is an interview with Dr. Roy Stefanik and hercampus.com. Hercampus is a website that is dedicated to college women. This interview focuses on obesity in college. Why is college obesity such a problem? Obesity can either be the … Read More
Food For Your Brain: Part 3
What foods should you avoid? 1. Saturated fats/refined carbohydrates. Both these products have highly detrimental effects on the immune system, oxidative stress, and neurotrophins, all factors that are known to play a role in depression. Multiple clinical studies show that … Read More
Food For Your Brain: Part 2
This week’s blog continues our current review of understanding how diet influences both mood and neurologic function of the brain. Certain foods have the potential to be beneficial, but their interaction with the brain is complicated. 1. Red Meat A … Read More
Food For Your Brain: Part 1
The impact of diet on physical and mental health is becoming increasingly clear, and is firmly linked with conditions such as heart disease, obesity, and diabetes. The combination of lifestyle changes along with diet modification can also have positive results … Read More
Vitamin D for Depression
Vitamin supplements have been touted as a treatment for everything from weight loss to curing the common cold. While the benefit of taking multivitamins is controversial, research published in the Archives of Internal medicine show that Vitamin D may protect … Read More
Diet and Mental Health
A newly published study supports the idea that healthier diets can significantly reduce the development of psychiatric problems during adolescence. Three quarters of lifetime psychiatric problems emerge in adolescence and early adulthood, and a recent national survey showed more than … Read More
Psychiatric Problems following Weight Loss Surgery
In a gastric bypass, the part of the intestine where many minerals and vitamins are most easily absorbed is bypassed, especially vitamin B12, which is the most common vitamin deficiency I’ve documented after gastric bypass. This is because the only … Read More
Weight Loss Surgery and Psychiatric Meds
I have had many patients come to me after having bariatric surgery and tell me that their depression or other medication has stopped working since the procedure. This is why it is very important to let your doctor know if … Read More
