About me
- Emeritus Associate Professor CE of Psychiatry
Education and training
- Medical School: Duke University School of Medicine
- Residency: Overlook Hospital
- Residency: NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center
My Locations
Penn Psychiatry Penn Presbyterian
Charles O'Brien Center for Addiction Treatment
Penn Medicine hospital privileges
- Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: On the medical staff, but does not have privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
- Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: On the medical staff, but does not have privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Qualifications and experience
- Psychiatry, 1982
- American Psychiatric Association,
- Faculty of 1000 in Medicine,
- New York Academy of Science,
- South Jersey Psychiatric Association,
Treatments and Conditions
My research
Dackis, C.A., Yu, E., Samaha, F., Kampman, K., Cornish, J., Rowan, M., Gerhart, M., Barnes, L., White, L., Poole, S., and O’Brien, C.P. Modafinil – cocaine safety study: A double blind, placebo-controlled drug interaction study , Drug and Alcohol Dependence , 70(1): 2003,29-37
Kampman, K.M., Majewska, M.D., Tourian, K., Dackis, C., Cornish, J., Poole, S., O'Brien, C.P. A pilot trial of piracetam and ginkgo biloba for the treatment of cocaine dependence , Addictive Behaviors , 27: 2003,1-12
Dackis, C.A. and O'Brien, C.P. The neurobiology of addiction , Diseases of the Nervous System, Third Edition: 2003,431-444
Dackis, C.A. and O’Brien, C.P. The neurobiology of alcoholism , Handbook of Medical Psychiatry: 2003,563-580
Dackis, C.A. and O’Brien, C.P. Neurobiology of cocaine dependence limits development of pharmacological treatments , Psychiatry Annals , 33(9): 2003,565-570
Dackis, C.A. and Miller, N. Neurobiological effects determine treatment options for alcohol, cocaine, and heroin addiction: the neurobiology and pharmacology of addiction , Psychiatry Annals , 33(9): 2003,585-592
Franklin TR, Acton PD, Maldjian JA, Gray JD, Croft JR, Dackis CA, O'Brien CP, & Childress AR Decreased gray matter concentration in the insular, orbitofrontal, cingulate, and temporal cortices of cocaine patients , Biological Psychiatry, 51(2): 2002,134-42
Dackis, C.A., Kampman, K., Pettinati, H., Weigly, C. and O’Brien, C.P. An open-label pilot study on the effectiveness and tolerability of modafinil for cocaine dependence , Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 66: 2002,S39-40
Dackis, C.A. and O’Brien, C.P. Cocaine dependence: the challenge for pharmacotherapy , Current Opinion in Psychiatry , 15: 2002,261-267
Forman, R.F., Dackis, C.A., Rawson, R. Twelve principles of outpatient addiction treatment , Current Psychiatry, 1(6): 2002,16-24