Psychiatrist

A **psychiatrist** is a [|physician] who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of [|mental disorders]. [|]] All psychiatrists are trained in diagnostic evaluation and in [|psychotherapy]. As part of their evaluation of the patient, psychiatrists are one of the few [|mental health professionals] who may prescribe [|psychiatric medication], conduct physical examinations, order and interpret laboratory tests and [|electroencephalograms] , and may order brain imaging studies such as [|computed tomography] or computed axial tomography (CT/CAT Scan), [|magnetic resonance imaging] (MRI), and [|positron emission tomography] Some psychiatric practitioners specialize in helping certain age groups. Child and adolescent psychiatrists work with children and teenagers in addressing psychological problems. Those who work with the elderly are called geriatric psychiatrists or geropsychiatrists. Those who practice psychiatry in the workplace are called [|organizational and occupational psychiatrists] in the US (occupational psychology is the name used for the most similar discipline in the UK). Psychiatrists working in the courtroom and reporting to the judge and jury, in both criminal and civil court cases, are called [|forensic psychiatrists], who also treat mentally disordered offenders and other patients whose condition is such that they have to be treated in secure units. Other psychiatrists and mental health professionals in the field of psychiatry may also specialize in [|psychopharmacology], [|psychiatric genetics] , [|neuroimaging] , [|dementia] -related disorders as [|Alzheimer's disease] , [|sleep medicine] , [|pain medicine] , [|palliative medicine] , [|eating disorders] , [|sexual disorders] , [|women's health] , [|Global Mental Health] , [|early psychosis intervention] , [|mood disorders] and anxiety disorders.