Rodney Pelchat, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Human Behavior

Contact Dr. Pelchat

1020 Sansom Street
Thompson Building, Suite 1652
Philadelphia, PA 19107

(215) 503-1239
(215) 955-8473 (fax)

Medical School
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY (1984)

Residency
Institute of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD (1988)

Fellowship
Geropsychiatry, Baltimore VAMC, Baltimore, MD (1989)

Board Certification
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Certified in Psychiatry
Added Qualifications in Geriatric Psychiatry

University Appointment
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Human Behavior

Research and Clinical Interests
Geriatric Psychiatry, ECT

Publications

1. Electroconvulsive therapy for depression in a Parkinson's disease patient with bilateral subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulators
2. A comparison of self-reported function assessed before and after depression treatment among depressed geriatric inpatients
3. Factors affecting compliance with maintenance electroconvulsive therapy: A preliminary study
4. ECT in the treatment of patients with neurological and somatic disease
5. Presentations and management of depression in medical-surgical patients.
6. Negative symptom assessment of chronic schizophrenia patients
7. Memory for feeding time: Possible dependence on coupled circadian oscillators
8. Postpartum copulatory and maternal behaviour in Norway rats under seminatural conditions.
9. Acute elevation of the heat load of mother rats curtails maternal nest bouts