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Ben Weinstein, MD

  • Houston Methodist psychiatrist
  • Chair, Houston Methodist Hospital department of psychiatry
Media Contact: Patti Muck , 832.667.5740

Ben Weinstein, MD

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Media Contact: Patti Muck , 832.667.5740

Areas of Expertise

  • Affective disorders
  • Anxiety disorders
  • Brain stimulation
  • Chronic pain
  • Clinical assessment
  • Evaluation of complex medical/neurological and psychiatric illnesses
  • Mood disorders
  • Personality disorders
  • Pharmacogenomics
  • Psychotherapy
  • Somatic symptom disorder
  • Substance abuse
  • Suicidal impulses
  • Thought disorders
  • Trauma

Credentials

BOARD CERTIFICATION
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
TRAINING
Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia
Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
Neurology and Psychiatry | Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina

Publications

A Comprehensive Approach to Addressing the Burnout Crisis Among US Health Care Workers: The Houston Methodist Experience
Bourassa, KA, Rohr, JC, Bartek, N, Miller, SM, Jones Wood, S, Vasquez, NN, Head, J, Robert-Ibarra, S, Moore, K, Marder, K, Freeland, D, Matthews, L, Weinstein, BL & Madan, A 2024, , Journal of Psychiatric Practice, vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 192-199. https://doi.org/10.1097/PRA.0000000000000782

History of childhood physical abuse is associated with gut microbiota diversity among adult psychiatric inpatients
Rohr, JC, Bourassa, KA, Thompson, DS, Fowler, JC, Frueh, BC, Weinstein, BL, Petrosino, J & Madan, A 2023, , Journal of Affective Disorders, vol. 331, pp. 50-56. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2023.03.023

Differential co-expression networks of the gut microbiota are associated with depression and anxiety treatment resistance among psychiatric inpatients
Thompson, DS, Fu, C, Gandhi, T, Fowler, JC, Frueh, BC, Weinstein, BL, Petrosino, J, Hadden, JK, Carlson, M, Coarfa, C & Madan, A 2023, , Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry, vol. 120, 110638. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pnpbp.2022.110638

Functional Rehabilitation: An Integrated Treatment Model for Patients with Complex Physical and Psychiatric Conditions
Orme, WH, Fowler, JC, Bradshaw, MR, Carlson, M, Hadden, J, Daniel, J, Flack, JN, Freeland, D, Head, J, Marder, K, Weinstein, BL & Madan, A 2022, , Journal of Psychiatric Practice, vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 193-202. https://doi.org/10.1097/PRA.0000000000000623

Is the gut microbiota associated with suicidality? Non-significant finding among a large cohort of psychiatrically hospitalized individuals with serious mental illness
Thompson, DS, Fowler, JC, Bradshaw, MR, Frueh, BC, Weinstein, BL, Petrosino, J, Hadden, JK & Madan, A 2021, , Journal of Affective Disorders Reports, vol. 6, 100266. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadr.2021.100266

Adapting an outpatient psychiatric clinic to telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic: A practice perspective
Sasangohar, F, Bradshaw, M, Carlson, M, Flack, J, Fowler, C, Orme, WH, Weinstein, B, Kash, BA & Madan, A 2020, , Journal of medical Internet research, vol. 22, no. 10, 22523, pp. e22523. https://doi.org/10.2196/22523

Lessons learned while integrating patient-reported outcomes in a Psychiatric Hospital
Fowler, JC, Madan, A, Frueh, BC, Bradshaw, M, Flack, J & Weinstein, B 2019, , Psychotherapy, vol. 56, no. 1, pp. 91-99. https://doi.org/10.1037/pst0000174

Psychiatry in neurology
Rodgers, JJ & Weinstein, BL 2017, . in Neurology Secrets: Sixth Edition. Elsevier, pp. 403-427. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-35948-1.00029-2

Personality disorders
Newlin, E & Weinstein, B 2015, , CONTINUUM Lifelong Learning in Neurology, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 806-817. https://doi.org/10.1212/01.CON.0000466668.02477.0c

Routine assessment of patient-reported outcomes in behavioral health: Room for improvement
Madan, A, Borckardt, JJ, Connell, A, Book, SB, Campbell, S, Gwynette, MF, Wimberly, LA, Wagner, M, Weinstein, B, McLeod-Bryant, S, Cooney, H & Herbert, J 2010, , Quality Management in Health Care, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 70-81. https://doi.org/10.1097/QMH.0b013e3181ccbc53

Clinical outcomes assessment in behavioral healthcare: searching for practical solutions.
Madan, A, Borckardt, J, Weinstein, B, Wagner, M, Dominick, C, Cooney, H & Herbert, J 2008, , Journal for healthcare quality : official publication of the National Association for Healthcare Quality, vol. 30, no. 4, pp. 30-37. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1945-1474.2008.tb01152.x

Resolution of haloperidol-induced hyperprolactinemia with aripiprazole [8]
Lorenz, RA & Weinstein, B 2007, , Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology, vol. 27, no. 5, pp. 524-525. https://doi.org/10.1097/JCP.0b013e31814f4d5d

Evaluating initiatives to reduce seclusion and restraint.
Hardesty, S, Borckardt, JJ, Hanson, R, Grubaugh, AL, Danielson, CK, Madan, A, Weinstein, BL, Hogarth, CR, Pelic, C, Hazy, J & Shoemaker, ML 2007, , Journal for healthcare quality : official publication of the National Association for Healthcare Quality, vol. 29, no. 4, pp. 46-55. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1945-1474.2007.tb00205.x


Languages

  • English