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Andrea Diaz Stransky

Andrea Diaz Stransky

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Psychiatry, Child & Family Mental Health & Community Psychiatry
andrea.diaz.stransky@duke.edu
2608 Erwin Rd., Suite 300, Durham, NC 27705

Scholarly Works - Journal articles

Night Terrors and Delirium in a Child With Presumed Rapid-Onset Obesity With Hypothalamic Dysfunction, Hypoventilation, and Autonomic Dysregulation.

Journal article Cureus · April 2026 Comorbid neuropsychiatric conditions, including major depressive disorder, anxiety, bipolar disorder, and psychosis, are reported among children with rapid-onset obesity with hypothalamic dysfunction, hypoventilation, and autonomic dysregulation (ROHHAD). ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Impact of Intersecting Identities on Student Well-being.

Journal article J Dev Behav Pediatr · November 2025 John is a 12-year-old African-American boy with a Specific Learning Disorder in Reading and Generalized Anxiety Disorder who you are seeing in follow-up at your clinic. Last fall, when John was having an escalation of his anxiety symptoms at school, he ena ... Full text Link to item Cite

Bridging the gap in school mental health: Strategies for supporting behavioral health staff.

Journal article Prev Med Rep · July 2025 OBJECTIVE: Current strategies employed across the United States to tackle school-based behavioral health taskforce shortages require innovative strategies to ensure students receive appropriate care. We aimed to identify beneficial strategies for supportin ... Full text Link to item Cite

Tantrum Tool: Development and Open Pilot Study of Online Parent Training for Irritability and Disruptive Behavior.

Journal article J Child Adolesc Psychopharmacol · November 2020 Objectives: Parent management training is an effective treatment for disruptive behavior disorders but it is often underutilized in clinical settings. Access to care is limited due to logistical barriers as well as limited service availability. This study ... Full text Link to item Cite

Psychogenic Nonepileptic Seizures: Diagnosis, Management, and Bioethics.

Journal article Pediatr Neurol · September 2016 BACKGROUND: The diagnosis and management of psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES) is often challenging and fraught with discord and disagreement between patients, parents, and physicians. Furthermore, there are ethical challenges when making the diagnos ... Full text Link to item Cite

Deep venous thrombosis and pulmonary embolisms in adult patients undergoing craniotomy for brain tumors.

Journal article Neurol Res · March 2013 OBJECTIVE: The development of venothromboembolisms (VTEs), including deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary emboli (PE), is common in brain tumor patients. Their development can be catastrophic. Studies evaluating pre-operative clinical factors that pred ... Full text Link to item Cite

Cognitive and behavioral aspects of Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome.

Journal article Am J Med Genet C Semin Med Genet · November 15, 2012 The brain's high concentrations of cholesterol make it especially vulnerable to the cholesterol biosynthetic defect that characterizes Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome (SLOS). An attempt to characterize the cognitive and behavioral phenotype of SLOS has identifi ... Full text Link to item Cite