Dr. sergio Silva, M.D., is a Board-Certified, expert psychopharmacologist with more than 25 years' experience diagnosing and treating adolescents and adults in a wide variety of clinical settings, including emergency rooms, general and psychiatric hospitals, clinics, nursing homes and other residential settings, and, most recently, and currently, online telehealth services across the state of texas.

Dr. Silva specializes in the identification, classification (Diagnosis) and treatment of clinically-relevant emotional and behavioral symptoms in adults, symptoms which lead to impairment and/or A markedly diminished quality of  life, including especially for the elderly.  He has conducted tens of thousands of individual comprehensive psychiatric evaluations--including most recently (2020) for the state of texas itself--and he has performed many hundreds of thousands of FOLLOWUP assessments making rounds, receiving outpatients in a clinic setting, and currently, vis-a-vis telemedicine technology.  

Although dr. silva sees a small number of adolescent patients and he has several years' experience evaluating and treating adolescent patients ages 12-17 in acute care settings, dr. silva is not a board-certified child or adolescent psychiatrist.  dr. silva completed no formal fellowship training in any psychiatric subspecialty, but in addition to being particularly skilled and experienced in the medical management of mood disorders (including and especially major anxiety syndromes), for 8+ years in midland, texas, the majority of which time he served as chief of staff for a private psychiatric hospital, dr. silva assumed primary responsibility of the geriatric unit, becoming a de facto geriatric psychiatrist and honing the skill of managing the disruptive or aggressive behavioral symptoms of all forms of advanced dementia.

Dr. Silva is an expert at evaluating, diagnosing, and treating the following psychiatric conditions and symptoms.  all conditions and disorders listed are treated, but The items highlighted in red are particular symptoms or specific conditions that dr. silva has had considerable experience and success managing.

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Adult Attention-Deficit Disorder
Agoraphobia
Alcohol Use Disorder
Amphetamine Use Disorder
Anorexia Nervosa
Antisocial Personality Disorder
Attention-Deficit Disorder (ADD)
Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
Autism Spectrum Disorders (including Asperger's)
Avoidant Personality Disorder
Binge Eating Disorder
Bipolar spectrum Disorders
Bipolar II Disorder
Bipolar Disorder due to...other causes
Body Dysmorphic Disorder
Borderline Personality Disorder
Bulemia Nervosa
Caffeine Use Disorder
Cannabis Use Disorder
Cocaine Use Disorder
Codependency
Cyclothymia
Delirium
Delusional states
Dementias of several types
Dependent Personality Disorder
Depression due to ...other medical causes
Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID); controversial
Depersonalization/Derealization
Dysthymia/dysthymic disorder
Factitious Disorder
Gambling Disorder
Gender Dysphoria
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Hallucinogen Use Disorder
Histrionic Personality Disorder
Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder
Inhalant Use Disorder
Intellectual Disability
Lewy Body Dementia
Major Depressive Disorder
Methamphetamine Use Disorder
Munchausen's Disorder
Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Nicotine Use Disorder
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder
Opiate Use Disorder
Oppositional-Defiant Disorder (ODD)
Panic Disorder
Paraphrenia
Parkinson's Disease, including Dementia due to Parkinsons's
Phobias
Postpartum Depression
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Premature Ejaculation
Pre-Menstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD)
Primary Insomnia
Rapid-Cycling Bipolar Disorder
Schizophrenia
Schizoaffective Disorder, Bipolar Type
Schizoaffective Disorder, Depressed Type
Schizoid Personality Disorder
Schizotypal Personality Disorder
Sedative-Hypnotic Use Disorder
Sex Addiction
Sexual Dysfunction
Shared Delusional Disorder
Somatic Symptom Disorder
Stimulant Use Disorder
Social Anxiety Disorder (Social Phobia)
Steroid-, Stimulant- and other Medication-Induced mania
Tourette's Disorder
Treatment-Refractory Depression

MOOD DISORDERS

COGNITIVE DISORDERS

ANXIETY SPECTRUM DISORDERS

EATING DISORDERS

ADJUSTMENT DISORDERS

IMPULSE CONTROL DISORDERS

PARAPHELIAS & CONDITIONS OF SEXUALITY

PRIMARY PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS

RELATIONAL PROBLEMS

MAJOR NEUROCOGNITIVE DISORDERS (DEMENTIAS)

CHEMICAL DEPENDENCY/SUBSTANCE USE DISORDERS

PERSONALITY DISORDERS

AUTISM SPECTRUM DISODERS

PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS DUE TO OTHER MEDICAL CONDITIONS

FACTITIOUS DISORDER

DELUSIONAL DISORDERS

DISSOCIATIVE DISORDERS

MOOD DISORDERS DUE TO ENDOCRINOLOGIC DISEASE

NARCOLEPSY

INSOMNIA, HYPERSOMNIA, PARASOMNIAS, OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNEA AND OTHER SLEEP DISORDERS

SOMATOFORM DISORDERS

BEHAVIORAL SYNDROMES IN CHILDREN