James Spar, M.D.
Titles
Director, Geriatric Assessment Program
Geriatric Day Treatment
Geriatric Psychiatric Inpatient Unit
Professor, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
Contact Information
Email
jspar@mednet.ucla.edu Phone
Work Phone Number:
(310) 825-0038
(310) 825-0038
(310) 825-0038
Address
Mailing Address:
Office37-370 Semel
Los Angeles,
UNITED STATES
Biography
Publications
A selected list of publications:
Chen S T, Altshuler L L, Spar J E
Bipolar disorder in late life: a review
Journal of geriatric psychiatry and neurology,
1998; 11(1):
29-35.
Spar J E, Garb A S
Assessing competency to make a will
The American journal of psychiatry,
1992; 149(2):
169-74.
Small G W, Matsuyama S S, Komanduri R, Spar J E, Fairbanks L
HLA antigens in depressed, demented, and nondemented elderly
Journal of geriatric psychiatry and neurology,
1991; 2(2):
70-5.
Wilkins J N, Spar J E, Carlson H E
Desipramine increases circulating growth hormone in elderly depressed
patients: a pilot study
Psychoneuroendocrinology,
1989; 14(3):
195-202.
Spar J E
Plasma trazodone concentrations in elderly depressed inpatients:
cardiac effects and short-term efficacy
Journal of clinical psychopharmacology,
1987; 7(6):
406-9.
La Rue A, Spar J, Hill C D
Cognitive impairment in late-life depression: clinical correlates and
treatment implications
Journal of affective disorders,
1987; 11(3):
179-84.
Leuchter A F, Spar J E, Walter D O, Weiner H
Electroencephalographic spectra and coherence in the diagnosis of
Alzheimer's-type and multi-infarct dementia. A pilot study
Archives of general psychiatry,
1987; 44(11):
993-8.
La Rue A, D'Elia L F, Clark E O, Spar J E, Jarvik L F
Clinical tests of memory in dementia, depression, and healthy aging
Psychology and aging,
1986; 1(1):
69-77.
Leuchter A F, Spar J E
The late-onset psychoses. Clinical and diagnostic features
The Journal of nervous and mental disease,
1985; 173(8):
488-94.
Spar J E, La Rue A
Major depression in the elderly: DSM-III criteria and the
dexamethasone suppression test as predictors of treatment response
The American journal of psychiatry,
1983; 140(7):
844-7.
Irwin M, Spar J E
Reversible cardiac conduction abnormality associated with trazodone
administration
The American journal of psychiatry,
1983; 140(7):
945-6.
Beck J C, Benson D F, Scheibel A B, Spar J E, Rubenstein L Z
Dementia in the elderly: the silent epidemic
Annals of internal medicine,
1982; 97(2):
231-41.
Spar J E
Dementia in the aged
The Psychiatric clinics of North America,
1982; 5(1):
67-86.
Spar J E, Gerner R
Does the dexamethasone suppression test distinguish dementia from
depression?
The American journal of psychiatry,
1982; 139(2):
238-40.
Spar J E, Ford C V, Liston E H
Hospital treatment of elderly neuropsychiatric patients. II.
Statistical profile of the first 122 patients in a new teaching ward
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society,
1980; 28(12):
539-43.
Ford C V, Spar J E, Davis B, Liston E H
Hospital treatment of elderly neuropsychiatric patients. I. Initial
clinical and administrative experience with a new teaching ward
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society,
1980; 28(10):
446-50.
Spar J E, Ford C V, Liston E H
Bipolar affective disorder in aged patients
The Journal of clinical psychiatry,
1979; 40(12):
504-7.
van Putten T, Spar J E
The board-and-care home: does it deserve a bad press?
Hospital & community psychiatry,
1979; 30(7):
461-4.