1. SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
WOMEN AND REPRODUCTION
Starkman, M.N.(1976).: Psychological Responses to the Use of the Fetal Monitor During
Labor, Psychosomatic Medicine, 38:269-277.
Youngs, D.D. and Starkman, M.N.(1976): Psychological and Physiological Aspects of
Electronic Fetal Monitoring, Primary Care, 3:691-700.
. Starkman, M.N.: Fetal Monitoring: Psychological Consequences and Management
Recommendations, Obstetrics and Gynecology, 50:500-504, 1977.
Starkman, M.N.: The Impact of Psychodynamic Factors on the Course and Management
of Patients with Pseudocyesis, Obstetrics and Gynecology, 64:142-145, 1984.
. Starkman, M.N., Marshall, J., La Ferla, J., Kelch, R.: Pseudocyesis: Psychologic and
Neuroendocrine Interrelationships, Psychosomatic Medicine, 47:46-57, 1985.
Steiner, M., Haskett, R., Osmun, J., Starkman, M.N., Peterson, E., Metski, R., and
Carroll, B.: The Treatment of Severe Premenstrual Dysphoria with Bromocriptine, J
Psychosom Obstet and Gynec, 2:223-227, 1983.
PSYCHIATRY IN MEDICINE
Starkman, M.N.: Psychological Problems Resulting from Parent-to-Adolescent Renal
Transplantation, General Hospital Psychiatry, 2:289-293, 1980
Starkman, M.N. and Youngs, D.D.: Evaluation and Management of the Patient Who
Refuses Medical Care, Primary Care, 6(2):451-457, 1979.
Starkman, M.N., Appelblatt, N.H.: Functional Upper Airway Obstruction: A Possible
Somatization Disorder, Psychosomatics, 25:327-333, 1984.
HORMONES: EFFECTS ON BRAIN, COGNITION AND MOOD
The Stress Hormone Cortisol
Starkman, M.N. and Schteingart, D.E.: Neuropsychiatric Manifestations of Patients with
Cushing's Syndrome: Relationship to Cortisol and Adrenocorticotropic Hormone Levels,
Arch Intern Med, 141:215-219, 1981.
Starkman, M.N., Schteingart, D.E. and Schork, M.A.: Depressed Mood and Other
Psychiatric Manifestations of Cushing's Syndrome: Relationship to Hormone Levels,
Psychosomatic Medicine, 43:3-18, 1981.

2. Starkman, M.N., Schteingart, D.E. and Schork, M.A.: Cushing's Syndrome After
Treatment: Changes in Cortisol and ACTH Levels, and Amelioration of the Depressive
Syndrome, Psychiatry Research, 19:177-188, 1986.
. Starkman, M.N.: Actions of Steroids on Neuron: Role in Personality, Mood, Stress, and
Disease, A Commentary, Integrative Psychiatry, 5:268-270, 1987.
Kronfol, Z., Starkman, M.N., Schteingart, D.E., Singh, V., and Zhang, Q.: Immune
Regulation in Cushing's Syndrome: Relation to HPA Axis Hormones.
Psychoneuroendocrinology 21:599-608, 1996.
Shipley, J.E., Schteingart, D.E., Tandon, R., Pande, A.C., Grunhaus, L., Haskett, R., and
Starkman, M.N.: EEG Sleep in Cushing's Disease and Cushing's Syndrome:
Comparison to Patients with Major Depressive Disorder, Biological Psychiatry. 32:146-
155, 1992.
Starkman, M.N., Giordani, B., Berent, S., Schork, M.A., Schteingart, D.E.: Elevated
Cortisol Levels in Cushing's Disease are Associated with Cognitive Decrements.
Psychosomatic Medicine. 63:985-993, 2001
Starkman, M.N., Gebarski, S.S., Berent, S. and Schteingart, D.E.: Hippocampal
Formation Volume, Memory Dysfunction, and Cortisol Levels in Patients with Cushing's
Syndrome. Biological Psychiatry 32:756-765, 1992.
Starkman, M.N., Giordani B., Gebarski S.S., Berent S., Schork M.A., Schteingart D.E.:
Decrease in Cortisol Reverses Human Hippocampal Atrophy following treatment of
Cushing’s Disease. Biological Psychiatry 46:1595-1602, 1999.
Starkman, M.N.., Giordani, B., Gebarski, S., Schteingart, D.E.: Improvement in Learning
Associated with Increase in Hippocampal Formation Volume. Biological Psychiatry.
53:233-238, 2003.
Hook, J.N., Giordani, B., Schteingart, D.E., Guire, K., Giles, J., Ryan, K., Gebarski, S.S.,
Langenecker, S.A., Starkman, M.N.: Patterns of cognitive change over time and
relationship to age following successful treatment of Cushing's disease. J. Int
Neuropsychol Soc.; 13(1):21-9, 2007 Jan.
Starkman, M.N., Giordani, B., Gebarski, S, Schteingart, D.E.: Improvement in Mood a
and Ideation Associated with Increase in Right Caudate Volume. J. Affective Disorders.
101:139-47, 2007.
The Stress Hormones Epinephrine and Norepinephrine
Starkman, M.N., Zelnik, T.C., Nesse, R.N., Cameron, O.G.: Anxiety in Patients with
Pheochromocytoma, Arch Intern Med, 145:248-252, 1985.
Starkman, M.N., Cameron, O.G., Nesse, R.M., and Zelnik, T.: Peripheral
Catecholamine Levels and the Symptoms of Anxiety: Studies in Patients With and
Without Pheochromocytoma, Psychosomatic Medicine 52:129-142, 1990.
Cameron, O.G., Starkman, M.N., and Schteingart, D.E.: The Effect of Elevated
Systemic Cortisol Levels to Plasma Catecholamines in Cushing's Syndrome Patients
With and Without Depressed Mood. Journal of Psychiatric Research 29(5):347-360,
1995.

3. TERRORISM AND PSYCHIATRY
Starkman MN. The Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001 as Psychological toxin. J.
Nervous & Mental Disease. 194(7):547-550, July 2006