Laura N. Antar, MD, PhD, PLLC

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Dr Antar specializes in state-of-the-art, outpatient treatment of stress, anxiety and depression in children, adolescents and adults. She also has extensive experience treating patients with bipolar disorder, mood disorders, PTSD and ADHD. Most of her patients work, go to school and are able to live their lives, but have some issues that " get in their way." Other patients have more significant distress. She is able to treat each person with what he or she needs, whether it is with medicine, interpersonal psychotherapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy or family therapy.

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Dr. Antar graduated from Oberlin College with honors in English and high honors in anthropology. She was a recipient of the National Endowment for the Humanities Younger Scholars Award. She went on to study Medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine where she completed both her M.D. and earned a Ph.D. in neuroscience. She was president of the Albert Einstein Chapter of the American Medical Women's Association and won the Julius Marmar Research Award for Excellence in Research. She has won numerous other awards including those from the National Science Foundation and the FRAXA Research Foundations that funded her research and helped her to teach others about her work. She has published extensively in Journals such as Neuron, The Journal of Neuroscience, Developmental Cell, and Genes, Brain and Behavior, Psychiatric Annals, to name a few. Her research has been cited in Science Magazine's Editor's Choice. She has published a several book chapters. She has been invited to present her work at the prestigious Gordon Research Conference, and has given numerous national and international talks on a variety of neuropsychiatric subjects to researchers and physicians as well as patients and their families. Dr. Antar volunteers some of her time teaching resident physicians at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and has given talks to social workers in the community as well as to elementary and high school students. Dr. Antar currently conducts research at Montefiore Medical Center of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine where she is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pyschiatry and Behavioral Sciences.