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Dr. Lake graduated from Tulane University, New Orleans, LA in 1965. He received an MS in Insect Physiology, also from Tulane, in 1966. He graduated from Duke University, School of Medicine and Duke Graduate School (Department of Physiology and Pharmacology), Durham, NC in 1971 and 1972. He studied at Oxford University and at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, London. His residency in Psychiatry was completed at Duke and at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). He remained at the NIMH, Laboratory of Clinical Sciences as a research associate and staff psychiatrist until 1979 when he moved across the pike to take a professorship of Psychiatry and Pharmacology at the new Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS), School of Medicine. He secured two RO1’s continuing his research on the regulation of the sympathetic nervous system in health and in patients with neuropsychiatric and/or cardiovascular disorders.
In 1993 he accepted the chairmanship of Psychiatry at the University of Kansas, School of Medicine for three years after which he continued on the full-time faculty until his recent partial retirement. As Professor Emeritus he continues to publish, teach students and residents about mood disorders and follow his long-term patients. He has over 250 publications and has achieved life-fellowship status in the American Psychiatric Association and the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology. His current interests are the mis-diagnosis of schizophrenia and a more effective strategy for teaching medical students about Psychiatry.
His wife has a PhD in Psychology and was a member of the Clinical Psychology faculty at the University of Kansas for 10 years. She recently received her JD from Georgetown Law Center in Washington, DC. They have three wonderful children. Dr Lake is competitive in tennis.
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Tuesday, April 14, 2015
Mr. Andreas Lubitz, Co-Pilot of Flight 9525: Depressed Yes, But What Kind, Bipolar of Unipolar? Depression is common and can be deadly as demonstrated by the demise of Flight 9525. It is possible that Mr. Lubitz could have been misdiagnosed and thereby not given the treatment of choice for Bipolar Depression.
Tuesday, April 14, 2015Mr. Andreas Lubitz, Co-Pilot of Flight 9525: Depressed Yes, But What Kind, Bipolar of Unipolar? Depression is common and can be deadly as demonstrated by the demise of Flight 9525. It is possible that Mr. Lubitz could have been misdiagnosed and thereby not given the treatment of choice for Bipolar Depression.
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Tuesday, October 15, 2013
Lethal Rampages in Washington DC and Elsewhere; Psychotric Mania, not Schizophrenia Mass murders by severely mentally ill (psychotic) killers are horrific tragedies that gain intense media coverage; they are not rare. This provocative and controversial article addresses efforts at prevention of future rampages and challenges the long-established medical concept that functional or primary psychosis means the diagnosis of schizophrenia rather than a psychotic bipolar disorder.
Tuesday, October 15, 2013Lethal Rampages in Washington DC and Elsewhere; Psychotric Mania, not Schizophrenia Mass murders by severely mentally ill (psychotic) killers are horrific tragedies that gain intense media coverage; they are not rare. This provocative and controversial article addresses efforts at prevention of future rampages and challenges the long-established medical concept that functional or primary psychosis means the diagnosis of schizophrenia rather than a psychotic bipolar disorder.
