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Kafui Dzirasa, MD, PhD, the K. Ranga Rama Krishnan Associate Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, has been selected to receive a Duke University Presidential Award and the Ruth and A. Morris Williams Faculty Research Prize.

Please join us in congratulating Duke Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences faculty members Ernestine Briggs-King, PhD, Jeremy Grove, PhD, and Sarah Wilson, PhD, on receiving departmental grants to support underrepresented minority faculty members and/or health inequities research!

A new study led by Duke Psychiatry's Eric Elbogen, PhD, suggests financial strains like debt or unemployment are significant risk factors for becoming homeless, and even help to explain increased risk of homelessness associated with severe mental illness

In early 2019, faculty members and support staff from the National Center for Child Traumatic Stress—including associate professor Tripp Ake—and nearly 70 participants from across the country initiated the Breakthrough Series Collaborative on Trauma-Informed Schools.

If doctors could catch the first signs of Alzheimer’s disease in the brain earlier, could the disease be delayed or even prevented? This is the question that researchers at Duke and UNC are hoping to answer by joining forces on the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Collaborative.

Kathryn E. Gustafson, PhD, describes how early neurodevelopmental assessments are performed, discusses trends associated with neurodevelopmental delays, and offers guidance to help clinicians achieve positive long-term outcomes for their young patients.

As the first anniversary of the pandemic approaches, three Duke experts reflected Wednesday on the impact it has had on various aspects of mental health during University Communications’ 50th virtual briefing for journalists since last March.

Duke Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences assistant professor Jennifer Plumb Vilardaga has received a career development award from the Duke Center for REsearch to Advance HealthCare Equity (REACH Equity).

In 1983, James Carter, Sr., MD, became the first Black full professor of psychiatry in the Duke University Department of Psychiatry, but his achievements and legacy stretch far beyond the Duke campus and health system. This Black History Month, we celebrate his legacy.

As part of ongoing efforts to increase access to mental health care at Duke, the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences joined a new Duke Health integrated care approach known as “e-comms” or “e-consults.”