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In a televised CBS-17 story, a Duke patient shared her positive experiences and outcomes with electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) after battling debilitating, treatment-resistant depression for more than 20 years. Jacob Feigal, MD, an assistant professor and the medical director of Duke Health’s ECT Program, was featured in the story.

As co-chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Mental Health, P. Murali Doraiswamy, MBBS, FRCP, is leading a global effort to promote novel public-private initiatives to enhance mental health care.

Kafui Dzirasa, MD, PhD, the K. Ranga Rama Krishnan Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, has been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Medicine.

Helping people — whether it be at a makeshift COVID-19 field hospital in New York City or through the Healthcare for the Homeless volunteer psychiatry clinic in Durham — is what drives internal medicine-psychiatry resident Colin Smith, MD, in his work as a physician.

Oxytocin, a naturally occurring hormone that acts as a chemical messenger in the brain, showed no evidence of helping children with autism gain social skills, according to a large national study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Beth Glascock, MPA, joined the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences as our new Vice Chair for Administration and Finance on October 1.

Kafui Dzirasa, MD, PhD, the K. Ranga Rama Krishnan Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, has been named a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator.

Duke Psychiatry's Dr. Jason Cho says we need to be intentional about creating opportunities to be quiet and still, especially in the Zoom era. Check out the great tips in this article for both relaxing and energizing ourselves.

In this Q&A, Duke Psychiatry's Shelley A. Holmer, MD, explains how the new behavioral health center meets a critical population health need in the region, the unique benefits to patients, and how providers can best refer their patients for assessment and treatment.

While marijuana use may impact some genes linked to autism in men’s sperm, abstaining from cannabis consumption over time may significantly lower many of those effects, according to a study by Duke Health researchers.