Nutritional supplements are naturally derived from sources like oils, plants, or animals. Used historically across cultures, these supplements address various health and mental concerns. Since they're less regulated than medications, we ensure our recommended supplements are backed by solid research. Nootropics are substances that claim to improve cognitive function and brain performance. They are also known as "smart drugs" or "cognitive enhancers".
They're a key component of our treatment approach. Our team keeps updated with the latest research on their benefits for well-being and psychiatric care. Some supplements, in select patients, even rival traditional medications in treating conditions like depression, anxiety, and ADHD.
Dr. David Danish, MD
Dr. Danish, a distinguished psychiatrist with dual board certification in adult and child/adolescent psychiatry, excels in holistic psychiatric care, integrating traditional and innovative treatments. With a vast 15-year experience treating a broad range of psychiatric conditions, his expertise extends to the use of nootropics and supplements, enhancing treatment outcomes across all mental health disorders. Leading the multi-disciplinary team at Philadelphia Integrative Psychiatry, Dr. Danish employs advanced methods like neurofeedback, EMDR, and esketamine, alongside his involvement in Behavidence, pioneering in digital phenotyping for mental health evaluation and management.
Dr. Danish graduated from Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, and then from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio in 2007, where he earned the Mastin Scholarship for outstanding academic achievement. He came to Philadelphia for his adult psychiatry residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, followed by a two-year fellowship in child & adolescent psychiatry at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. He is board certified in both adult psychiatry and child/adolescent psychiatry.During his 15 years of experience in psychiatry, he has treated patients of all ages (from preschool to geriatric) and various backgrounds. He is experienced in treating mood, anxiety, neurodevelopmental, executive function, and psychotic disorders.
After working for over a decade in both emergency room and inpatient settings, gaining experience with the more acute presentations of these disorders, he went on to develop and grow a multi-disciplinary center for psychiatric disorders-- Philadelphia Integrative Psychiatry, located in the suburbs west of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
At this practice he leads a team of practitioners, nurse practitioners and therapists, treating hundreds of patients with conditions across the psychiatric spectrum. Philadelphia Integrative Psychiatry employs cutting edge treatment, including the most up to date and research-backed psychopharmacology, neurofeedback, biofeedback, EMDR, and altered mind state for treatment resistant depression (TRD), and soon will provide Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for TRD and altered mind state assisted therapy for depression & PTSD.
In addition to his role as a clinical lead, he is excited and honored to have been accepted as a member of the team at Behavidence. Behavidence offers a phone-based technology that employs digital phenotyping and a machine-learning algorithm to evaluate onset, progression, and relapse of mental health conditions. At Behavidence he will help direct research, product design, and patient and practitioner outreach and education. This new approach could offer a significant advance in how various conditions are screened for, diagnosed, and monitored in the field of psychiatry.
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