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Find Mental Health and Wellness Resources for the Duke Community
This Duke Today article contains an extensive list of Duke health and wellness resources for faculty, staff and students
Connection, Trust, and Recovery: A New Series About Peer Support
If you’ve ever needed help but weren’t sure where to turn, then you know how important just one trustworthy guide can be. This blog post is the first of an occasional series on the Wilson Center for Science & Justice website called “Connection, Trust, and Recovery,” by Michele Easter, PhD.
It is not enough to say we are anti-racist. We must address glaring disparities in treatment.
In a recent op-ed on KevinMD.com, Jane Gagliardi, MD, MHS, discusses the need to eradicate racial disparities in patient care and outcomes.
Jeffrey Swanson Edits Harvard Review of Psychiatry Special Issue
Current research and perspectives on associations between violence and mental illness are presented in the special January/February issue of Harvard Review of Psychiatry, guest-edited by Jeffrey Swanson, PhD, professor in Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences.
Q&A with Kim Johnson, MD: Isolation, Comorbidities Play a Part in Psychiatric Issues
Psychiatrists who treat older adults for anxiety, depression, memory disorders, and psychiatric manifestations of neurological diseases often encounter complex and interconnected circumstances that contribute to the development and exacerbation of patients’ conditions.
$1M Gift Will Establish ADHD Center for Girls and Women
An anonymous family’s generosity will enable Duke University School of Medicine to establish one of the nation’s only programs dedicated specifically to helping girls and women with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).
Five Duke Psychiatry Faculty Selected for Leadership Programs
Congratulations to the five Duke Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences faculty members who have been selected to participate in three School of Medicine leadership development programs!
Physician-Pharmacist Collaboration May Increase Adherence to Opioid Addiction Treatment
An NIH-supported pilot study led by Duke Psychiatry's Li-Tzy Wu, MA, DSC, found that a team-based approach may improve buprenorphine care.
Self-Controlled Children Tend to Be Healthier Middle-Aged Adults
Self-control, the ability to contain one’s own thoughts, feelings and behaviors, and to work toward goals with a plan, is one of the personality traits that makes a child ready for school. And, it turns out, ready for life as well.
A Lockdown Impacts Mental Health – But What Hurts and Helps People Get Through It?
A new study just published in PLOS ONE examines what hurts and what helps people in "lockdown," using data from across the world.