Psychiatry

The Department of Psychiatry has been at the forefront of psychiatric care for decades. Members of our faculty were among the first to champion the medical model of psychiatry and view psychiatric dysfunction as an interaction between genes and environment.

The department and its faculty continue to be in the vanguard of both the study and treatment of mental illness.

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Michael R. Jarvis, MD, PhD

Specialty Areas
Psychiatry
Forensic Psychiatry

Areas of Clinical Interest
Psychiatry, geriatric psychiatry, forensic psychiatry in health care, public safety, criminal justice and in the workplace.

Added Board Certification Qualification in Geriatric Psychiatry.

THIS PHYSICIAN PROVIDES ECT CONSULTS ONLY.

Areas of Research Interest
Interventional Psychiatric (such as Electroconvulsive Therapy, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation and Vagal Nerve Stimulation) which tries to understand the mechanisms of action and develop clinical guidelines, forensic psychiatry.

This physician provides professional consultation only.

Major or Recent Publications/Awards

Awards and Honors
Listed in Best Doctors in America, 2002-2003, 2006 - 2008 (Best Doctors, Inc)
Guide to America's Top Psychiatrists, 2007
Chairman, Judicial Committee, Eastern Missouri Psychiatric Society (EMPA), 2006-2007
Barnes-Jewish Hospital Quality Leadership Award, 1995
Osler Institute Teaching Award, 1995
Sidney I. Schwab Prize in Psychiatry, 1985
R. Emerson Memorial Grant for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Within the School of Life Sciences, University of Illinois, 1981, 1982

Patents
Jarvis MR, Fulton DS. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration: Spillage detector for liquid chromatography systems. United States Patent: 4,591-838 May, 1986

Invited Publications
Jarvis, MR: An evolutionary perspective of utilization review, St. Louis Metropolitan Medicine 1994: 16:20-21

Jarvis MR, Voss EW Jr. Fluotescein in Kinetic Studies of Affinity Maturation, In: The Fluorescein Hapten as a Molecular Probe in Immunology 1984; (ed) Voss EW Jr., CRC Press, Inc, Boca Raton, Florida

Jarvis MR. Use of Immobilized Ligand in the Study of Solubilized Surface Membrane Immunoglobulin, In: The Fluorescein Hapten as a Molecular Probe In Immunology 1984; (ed) Voss EW Jr., CRC Press, Inc, Boca Raton, Florida

Selected Peer Reviewed Manuscripts
Zorumski CF, de Erausquin G, Dokucu M, Svrakic D, Garcia K, Jarvis M: Brain Stimulation & the Treatment of Refractory Psychiatric Disorders. Missouri Medicine, 2008; 105(1): 57-61

Isenberg K, Kormos TC, Downs D, Pierce K, Svrakic D, Garcia K, Jarvis M, North C: Low Frequency rTMS Stimulation of the Right Frontal Cortex is as Effective as High Frequency rTMS Stimulation of the Left Frontal Cortex for Antidepressant-Free, Treatment-Resistant, Depressed Patients. Ann. Clin. Psychiatry, 2005; 17(3):153-159

Rasmussen KG, Jarvis MR, Zorumski, CF, Ruwithch J, Best AM. Low dose atrpine in electroconvulsive therapy. J. ECT 1999; 15:213-21

Rasmussen KG, Jarvis MR, Zorumski CF. Naloxone and ECT seizure length. Convulsive Therapy 1997; 13:44-46

Rasmussen KG, Jarvis MR, Zorumski CF. Ketamine anesthesia in electroconvulsive therapy. Convulsive Therapy 1996; 12:217-223

Rasmussen KG, Zorumski CF, Jarvis MR. Possible impact of stimulus duration on seizure threshold in ECT. Convulsive Therapy 1994; 10:177-180

Michael R. Jarvis, MD, PhD