Meet Dr. Khan

Arif Khan, M.D., Medical Director and Principal Investigator at Northwest Clinical Research Center (NWCRC), is a Board Certified Psychiatrist and an Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at Duke University School of Medicine.  His specialty is psychiatry and the treatment of mood disorders.

Doctor Khan and the team at NWCRC have been researching Treatment Resistant Depression (TRD) for many years.  They have completed nearly 20 clinical trials studying different medications for use in the treatment of TRD.  Some of the medications he has studied include Olanzapine (Zyprexa®), Fluoxetine (Prozac®), Venlafaxine (Effexor®), Risperidone (Risperdal®) and Aripiprazole (Abilify®).

Dr. Khan has published papers about Depression in medical and psychiatric journals around the world.  You can view the abstracts to some of these articles by clicking on the links below.

Friedman RA.  Can the placebo treat depression? That depends.  New York Times: June 25th, 2002.

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/25/health/behavior-can-the-placebo-treat-depression-that-depends.html

Khan A, Khan S, Brown WA.  Are placebo controls necessary to test new antidepressants and anxiolytics?  International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology 5: 193-197, 2002.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=are%20placebo%20controls%20necessary%20to%20test%20new%20antidepressants%20and%20anxiolytics

Khan A, Kolts RL, Thase ME, Krishnan KR, Brown WA.  Research design features and patient characteristics associated with the outcome of antidepressant clinical trials.  American Journal of Psychiatry, 160(11): 2045-2049, 2004.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15514405

 


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