Vesselin Tenev, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Current Positions
- Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Education
- MD in Specialty of Psychiatry, 2004, Medical University, Sofia, Bulgaria
- Resident in Psychiatry, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States
Research Interests
- Collaboration and consulting of national daily newspaper “24 hours” and specialized magazine “Health” on issues concerning mental health
- “Education on mental health” – weekly radio program on social radio – (Radio Net) hosted by the author and dedicated to mental health, antistygma, resocialization, care and treatment of children, adolescents, adults, elderly with mental health problems and disabilities. The program was dedicated to raising awareness of better understanding and more appropriate assessment of their problems, psychiatric and social care practices in treatment and long term management of chronic psychotic disorder, affective and anxiety disorders, comorbidities.
- Researcher for the “Theory of Mind in Bipolar Disorder” – reading the Mind in the Eyes Project – neurocognitive research with scientific centers: University Clinic of Forensic psychiatry “St Naum” and University Hospital, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
- European Network ’Neuroimaging research in antisocial patient groups’
Selected Publications
- Nikolova, M., Milenova, V., Yosifov, D., Vlahov, Y. & Tenev, V. (2019). Renal Changes in Cocaine Abuse and Addiction. Acta Medica Bulgarica 46 (2) 57-61. DOI: 10.2478/amb-2019-0020.
- Tenev, V. & Nikolova, M. (2018). Pharmacodynamic Evaluation: Drug Dependency and Addiction. In Drug Discovery and Evaluation: Methods in Clinical Pharmacology. pp. 1-35. Springer International Publishing. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-56637-5_49-1.
- Robinson, R. G., Tenev, V. & Jorge, R. E. (2009). Citalopram for continuation therapy after repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in vascular depression. The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry 17 (8) 682-7. DOI: 10.1097/JGP.0b013e3181a88423. PMID: 19625785.
- Tenev, V. T., Robinson, R. G. & Jorge, R. E. (2009). Is family history of depression a risk factor for poststroke depression? Meta-analysis. The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry 17 (4) 276-80. DOI: 10.1097/JGP.0b013e3181953b6e. PMID: 19307856.
- (2006). Drug Interaction Principles – reference book. Bulgarian Psychiatric Association.
- Pharmacodynamic Evaluation: Drug Dependency and Addiction. In Drug Discovery and Evaluation: Methods in Clinical Pharmacology. Springer, Cham.