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J. Nathan Copeland CV

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Psychiatry, Child & Family Mental Health & Community Psychiatry
2608 Erwin Road, Durham, NC 27705
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Selected Publications


Seasonality of Pediatric Mental Health Emergency Department Visits, School, and COVID-19.

Journal Article Pediatr Emerg Care · December 1, 2022 OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to explore how the academic calendar, and by extension school-year stressors, contributes to the seasonality of pediatric mental health emergency department (ED) visits. METHODS: The authors reviewed all pediatric ment ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Use of North Carolina Medicaid Collaborative Care Billing Codes After Statewide Approval for Reimbursement.

Journal Article Psychiatr Serv · December 1, 2022 Effective October 2018, North Carolina Medicaid approved reimbursement for collaborative care model (CoCM) billing codes. From October 2018 through December 2019, only 915 of the estimated two million eligible Medicaid beneficiaries had at least one CoCM c ... Full text Link to item Cite

Racial and Ethnic Differences in Psychotropic Prescription Receipt Among Pediatric Patients Enrolled in North Carolina Medicaid.

Journal Article Psychiatr Serv · December 1, 2022 OBJECTIVE: The authors aimed to examine racial-ethnic differences in filled psychotropic prescriptions among a pediatric Medicaid population. METHODS: This retrospective cohort study included patients ages 0-21 with at least one North Carolina Medicaid cla ... Full text Link to item Cite

Brief Report: Classifying Rates of Students with Autism and Intellectual Disability in North Carolina: Roles of Race and Economic Disadvantage.

Journal Article J Autism Dev Disord · January 2021 We examined special education classifications among students aged 3-21 in North Carolina public schools, highlighting autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and intellectual disability (ID). Results revealed variability by county in ASD and ID prevalence, and in c ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Correction to: De novo CACNA1D Ca2+ channelopathies: clinical phenotypes and molecular mechanism.

Journal Article Pflugers Arch · August 2020 The above article was published online with an error in Article title. Author mispronounced the name of a gene (CACNA1D instead of CACAN1D). The correct gene is presented above. ... Full text Link to item Cite

De novo CACNA1D Ca2+ channelopathies: clinical phenotypes and molecular mechanism.

Journal Article Pflugers Arch · July 2020 The identification of rare disease-causing variants in humans by large-scale next-generation sequencing (NGS) studies has also provided us with new insights into the pathophysiological role of de novo missense variants in the CACNA1D gene that encodes the ... Full text Link to item Cite

Autism, Psychosis, or Both? Unraveling Complex Patient Presentations.

Journal Article Child Adolesc Psychiatr Clin N Am · January 2020 Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) and schizophrenia spectrum disorders co-occur at elevated rates. Although these conditions are diagnostically distinct, they share multiple clinical features and genetic risk factors. This article describes the epidemiologi ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

2.1 ASD AND INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY IN SPECIAL EDUCATION IN NORTH CAROLINA: ROLES OF RACE AND ECONOMIC DISADVANTAGE

Conference Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry · October 2019 Full text Cite

IDENTIFYING DISPARITIES AND IMPLEMENTING NOVEL INTERVENTIONS TO OVERCOME INEQUITIES IN ASD

Conference Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry · October 2019 Full text Cite

Suggestive linkage at 9p22 in bipolar disorder weighted by alcohol abuse

Journal Article American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics · December 5, 2009 AbstractBipolar disorder (BP) is a highly heritable disorder, however attempts to map genetic risk factors are challenging. One possible reason for these difficulties is the genetic heterogeneity of BP. Hence, focusing on c ... Full text Cite