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After visiting the schizophrenia ward at Duke University, Dzirasa switched to medicine. [3] He earned a PhD in neurobiology in 2007 with Miguel Nicolelis. [4] [5] He was awarded the Duke University Somjen Award for Outstanding Dissertation Thesis. [6] [7] He was the first Black student to graduate with a doctorate in neurobiology from Duke. [1]
Jeffrey W. Swanson (born March 24, 1957) [1] is an American medical sociologist and professor in psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Duke University School of Medicine. He is an expert in psychiatric epidemiology, especially as regards the epidemiology of violence and serious mental illness. [2] [3]
Damon Scott Tweedy is an American physician who is an associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Duke University School of Medicine. In 2015 Tweedy published his memoir, Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine.
Harold G. Koenig is a psychiatrist on the faculty of Duke University.His ideas have been covered in Newsweek and other news media with regard to religion, spirituality and health, a focus of some of his research and clinical practice.
Augustus John Rush (born December 15, 1942) is an internationally renowned psychiatrist.He is a professor emeritus in Duke-NUS Medical School at the National University of Singapore (NUS), [1] and adjunct professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Duke University School of Medicine. [2]
The result has been a broken American mental health "non-system" that overtreats the worried well and vastly undertreats the seriously mentally ill. Instead of 600,000 in state hospitals, we now have 350,000 mentally ill in prison and 250,000 homeless—because the vast majority is unable to obtain decent housing and access to treatment.
A heroin addict entering a rehab facility presents as severe a case as a would-be suicide entering a psych ward. The addiction involves genetic predisposition, corrupted brain chemistry, entrenched environmental factors and any number of potential mental-health disorders — it requires urgent medical intervention.
[1] [2] [3] Dawson is William Cleland Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and professor of psychology and neuroscience, former director, Duke Institute for Brain Sciences and founding director of the Duke Center for Autism and Brain Development at Duke University Medical Center. Dawson was president of the ...