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In her new book, "America’s Health," Duke Psychiatry's Leslie Bronner, MD, DrPH, calls attention to the outsize impact of community conditions on our health and the need for policies and systems that better support our wellbeing. The book weaves together research, fresh ideas, and engaging vignettes drawn from Bronner’s clinical experiences.

A JAMA Network Open study led by Duke Psychiatry's Eric Elbogen, PhD, found that veterans experiencing major financial strain were significantly more likely to die by suicide within the following year than those without financial difficulties.

The Duke Center for Autism & Brain Development's monthly seminar series started as a small faculty gathering in 2014. Today the series, now virtual and open to the public, brings leading experts into conversation with a global audience.

Duke University’s Canine Cognition Center, Duke Psychiatry's Frank Keefe, PhD, and NC State are collaborating on an NIH-funded project in which dogs are helping researchers decode pain.

Duke Psychiatry's Marvin Swartz, MD, and Jeffrey Swanson, PhD, discuss Psychiatric Advanced Directives (PADs): what are they, how the National Resource Center on Psychiatric Advance Directives has promoted their use, and how to continue to expand the use of PADs.

Associate professor Lauren Franz, MBChB, MPH, has been selected as the director of the Duke Center for Autism and Brain Development, effective July 6. Franz served as the center’s associate director from 2022 to 2024, when she became the interim director after Geraldine Dawson, PhD, William Cleland Distinguished Professor, stepped down from the center leadership role.

Congratulations to our Duke Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences trainees and faculty members who received these year-end awards.

Seven faculty members who have retired from the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences this year have been honored with emeritus/emerita status.

Duke Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences faculty members Colleen Cowperthwait, PhD, and Jill Howard, PhD, recently completed the Duke Clinical Leadership Program.

In a new study in JAMA Ophthalmology, Duke University School of Medicine researchers—including Duke Psychiatry's Kathryn Gustafson, PhD—found that specific features in the developing retina are closely linked to cognitive, motor, and behavioral outcomes at age 2. The findings suggest that the eye could serve as an early biomarker for brain development in vulnerable infants.