Ravi Singareddy, MD
Ravi Singareddy is the founder and medical director of Empower Psychiatry & Sleep in north metro Atlanta, where he leads an interventional psychiatry practice offering transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and Spravato (esketamine) for treatment-resistant depression. Double board-certified in psychiatry and sleep medicine, he brings more than two decades of clinical and academic experience to patients who haven't found relief with medications alone. He is affiliated with Emory Healthcare.
His interest in neuromodulation dates back to his years as associate professor of psychiatry at Penn State College of Medicine. There, he taught annually on vagus nerve stimulation and novel depression therapies, and he published on long-term combined electroconvulsive therapy and vagus nerve stimulation in the American Journal of Psychiatry. He has authored numerous peer-reviewed papers on sleep disorders, insomnia, anxiety, and depression, with work appearing in Sleep, the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, and Psychiatry Research.
Singareddy is a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and practices measurement-based care, tracking outcomes to guide every treatment decision. He shares updates on Instagram.
Conditions
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is one of the most delayed diagnoses in psychiatry, and much of that delay happens in offices like ours. Patients typically notice their first symptoms in adolescence or early adulthood but are not correctly diagnosed until roughly…
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is one of the most delayed diagnoses in psychiatry, and much of that delay happens in offices like ours. Patients typically notice their first symptoms in adolescence or early adulthood but are not correctly diagnosed until roughly a decade later. One outpatient study found an average of about 12.8 years between symptom onset and diagnosis, and a meta-analysis of 31 studies put the pooled duration of untreated …
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5 OCD screening questions every clinician should ask
Policy
A standard course of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) for depression means coming to the clinic five days a week for four to six weeks, roughly 20 to 36 sessions. That is because response depends mainly on the number of…
A standard course of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) for depression means coming to the clinic five days a week for four to six weeks, roughly 20 to 36 sessions. That is because response depends mainly on the number of sessions delivered, not on calendar time.
Esketamine (Spravato) carries a different but equally demanding logistical load. Under its FDA safety program, known as a Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS), each …
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Access to interventional psychiatry should not end downtown
Conditions
In community interventional psychiatry practices, the typical referral looks the same week after week. The patient is in the fifth or sixth year of a major depressive episode and carries a list of four, five, sometimes seven antidepressants they have…
In community interventional psychiatry practices, the typical referral looks the same week after week. The patient is in the fifth or sixth year of a major depressive episode and carries a list of four, five, sometimes seven antidepressants they have “failed.” They are finally sent for transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) or esketamine (Spravato) long after the point when those treatments would have done the most good. By the time the …
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After 2 failed antidepressants, raise TMS and esketamine
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