| General Psychiatry |
-Focus on diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mental health disorders in adults
-Including mood disorders (such as depression and bipolar disorder), anxiety disorders, schizophrenia, personality disorders, and various other conditions that affect mental well-being resulting in functional impairment
-Treatments include medication, psychotherapy, electroconvulsive therapy, repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) etc. |
All specialists |
| Forensic Psychiatry |
-Accept forensic psychiatric evaluations entrusted by various levels of courts and prosecutorial agencies, with the principles of fairness and objectivity to provide professional assessments
-Including criminal forensic evaluation, civil forensic assessments (like guardianship declaration) |
All specialists |
| Day-ward |
-Patients with chronic and stable psychiatric disorders come to day-ward for treatment during weekdays (Monday to Friday) and return to their homes in the evenings and on weekends
-Organizes a variety of rehabilitation activities to assist the patients to reintegrate into society |
All specialists |
| Community Rehabilitation Center |
-Diverse and individualized rehabilitation services to restore the social and vocational functions
-Enabling them to successfully reintegrate into community with independent life
-Strengthen community residents' understanding and acceptance of participants, removing the negative effects of stigma |
All specialists |
| Home Treatment of Psychiatric Patients |
-For patients with severe mental illness but refuse to seek medical treatment, lack of insight, or at risk of interrupting treatment
-Involves doctors and nurses visiting patient's home to conduct assessments and provide treatment
-Once or twice a month, with visit times from Monday to Friday, 9AM~12PM |
All specialists |
| Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, rTMS (self paid) |
-Approved by Taiwan Ministry of Health and Welfare for treatment-resistant depression (TRD)
-Non-invasive and does not require anesthesia
-Using a magnetic field to induce microcurrents in the brain, which increases blood flow in regions of brain related to emotions and modulates activity of emotional circuits
-Recommended treatment time for rTMS is about 20-40 minutes per session, once a day, for at least two weeks, with a total of ten sessions. The duration and frequency of treatment can be adjusted based on patient's response |
All specialists |
| Electro - Convulsive Therapy (ECT) |
-Indication: severe depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, catatonia, and neuroleptic malignant syndrome
-Using current to pass through patient's brain, triggering synchronized discharge in the brain, aiming to adjust the patient's brain dysfunction
-Typical course consists of 6 to 12 treatments (2~3 times per week), individualized for each patient |
All specialists |
| Geriatric Psychiatry |
-Evaluation and treatment for dementia, neuropsychiatric complications from stroke, late-life presentations of psychiatric disorders (like depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, personality disorder) |
Pan, Chih-Chuan
Chu, Che-Sheng
Ching, Pao-Yuan
Kuo, Hsin-Ya |
| Child and Adolescent Psychiatry |
-Focus on diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mental disorders in children, adolescents, and young adulthood
-Addresses a wide range of psychiatric disorders, including anxiety, depression, mood disorders, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism spectrum disorders, eating disorders etc. |
Lee, Min-Jing
Lee, Hsuan-Han |
| Methadone Replacement Therapy |
-Methadone is given to replace other opioids such as heroin and morphine in order to reduce the cravings and withdrawal symptoms experienced by patients
-Medication administration time: 4:00 PM to 7:30 PM, and 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM
-Simultaneous screening for hepatitis B, hepatitis C, HIV infection, and latent tuberculosis |
Lee, Sheng-Yu |