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Duke Psychiatry's Dr. Scott Kollins is part of a multidisciplinary team investigating whether machine learning methods can be applied to electronic health record data to develop models that accurately predict risk for autism and ADHD.

Researchers in Duke’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences are focusing on the benefits of stress management, physical exercise and other lifestyle changes to diminish depressive symptoms and improve clinical outcomes.

Seven faculty members from our department were selected to participate in three highly competitive School of Medicine leadership and development programs.

Study suggests that risk for nicotine addiction could begin with initial exposure

A new early-intervention model coaches caregivers on strategies to nurture their kids’ development.

Psychiatry residency alumna Carrie Brown, MD, MPH, credits her first clinical rotation as a Duke University medical student—at John Umstead Hospital, a state-funded psychiatric inpatient facility in Butler, North Carolina—with planting the seed for her future career in psychiatry.

Congratulations to Duke Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences faculty members Alison Adcock, Angel Peterchev and Stefan Goetz on receiving 2019 Germinator Awards from the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences.

Growing up in a Boston suburb, Heather Vestal, MD, MHS, was certain of one thing: while she always wanted to be a doctor, she did not want to follow in her parents’ footsteps and become a psychiatrist.

The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) recently presented Kafui Dzirasa, MD, PhD, with this year’s Young Investigator Award.

The 2019 Annual Meeting of the Association of Medicine and Psychiatry took place at the Emory Conference Center in Atlanta, Georgia, October 17-19, with great representation from Duke.