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Duke Center for Autism & Brain Development Releases Annual Report
The Duke Center for Autism & Brain Development recently published their 2020 Annual Report.
Duke Psychiatry Convenes Perinatal Mental Health Colloquia
Last month, the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences hosted three events focused on perinatal health and maternal wellness.
Day of Remembrance Caps Transgender Awareness Week
On Transgender Day of Remembrance, the culmination of Transgender Awareness Week, the Duke University School of Medicine honors and commemorates the lives of the transgender and gender non-binary community lost to deadly violence over the past year.
Duke Psychiatry Professor Blogs about Nature & Resilience in Justice-Involved Communities
Michele Easter, PhD, spoke with two staff members from Benevolence Farm, a transitional employment and living program in Alamance County for women leaving North Carolina prisons.
Two Duke Psychiatry Faculty Receive Seed Grants to Improve Early Childhood Outcomes
All Babies and Children Thrive (ABC Thrive) has awarded seed grants of up to $40,000 to four interdisciplinary teams of Duke faculty.
Digital Medicine Can Diagnose and Treat What Ails You
Could the next prescription from your doctor be for an app? A raft of apps in use or under development can now detect or monitor mental and physical disorders autonomously or directly administer therapies.
Ideas for How to Break Pandemic Pitfalls
The pandemic has left many with habits they’d like to change, from out-of-control snacking to unclear work-life boundaries. In this Duke Today article, Duke experts, including assistant professor Kyla Machell Blalock, PhD, offer strategies that may help fix these pitfalls.
Maggie Sweitzer Receives a DIBS Incubator Award
Five interdisciplinary teams, including one led by Maggie Sweitzer, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, have received 2020 Research Incubator or Germinator Awards from the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences (DIBS).
Duke Neuroscientist Publishes Anti-Racism Op-Ed Series
The moment has finally arrived for the United States biomedical research enterprise to directly confront structural racism in scientific funding, according to Duke neuroscientist Kafui Dzirasa, MD, PhD.
Discrimination Linked to Obesity and Heart Disease Risk in Some Black Women
A genetic variation in combination with the stress of racial discrimination appears to increase the risk of metabolic and cardiovascular diseases among Black women, according to a recent study from Duke Health researchers.