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Ariana N Huselid

Ariana N Huselid

Medical Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Adult Psychiatry & Psychology
ariana.nesbit@duke.edu
Central Regional Hospital, 300 Veazey Road, Butner, NC 27509
Central Regional Hospital, 300 Veazey Road, Butner, NC 27509

Selected Publications

Neurobiological evidence and criminal competencies.

Journal Article Behav Sci Law · 2024 Neuroimaging and other neurobiological evidences are increasingly introduced in criminal litigation, especially when a neuropsychiatric disorder is suspected. Evaluations of criminal competencies are the most common type of criminal forensic assessment in ... Full text Link to item Cite

Considerations for the Writing of Certification Letters Endorsing Use of Emotional Support Animals.

Journal Article Psychiatr Serv · September 1, 2023 Emotional support animals (ESAs) are different from service animals, therapy animals, and other disability-related assistance animals. Although pet ownership may confer psychological benefits, limited research has supported the use of ESAs to realize such ... Full text Link to item Cite

Religion, Spirituality, and Ethics in Psychiatric Practice.

Journal Article J Nerv Ment Dis · August 1, 2022 The interface of religion, spirituality, and psychiatric practice has long been of interest to the ethical psychiatrist. Some prominent early psychotherapists had a strained relationship with religion and spirituality. They posited that religion and spirit ... Full text Link to item Cite

Gender and Malingering in Defendants Deemed Incompetent to Stand Trial.

Journal Article J Am Acad Psychiatry Law · June 2021 The relationships between gender and malingering have received little attention in the literature. Our study examined data from 1,748 patients committed as incompetent to stand trial between 2008 and 2017, of whom 397 were women. Scores on a structured ass ... Full text Link to item Cite

The Transgender Bathroom Debate at the Intersection of Politics, Law, Ethics, and Science.

Journal Article J Am Acad Psychiatry Law · June 2018 The debate over whether transgender individuals should be allowed to use the public restrooms (including locker rooms and changing rooms) that correspond to their currently expressed gender rather than their biological sex has been of recent interest natio ... Full text Link to item Cite

Demographic and clinical characteristics associated with a history of bizarre delusions in a cross-diagnostic sample of individuals with psychotic disorders.

Journal Article Asian J Psychiatr · January 2018 Bizarre delusions (BizD) are not specific to schizophrenia (SZ) and can be found in other psychotic disorders. However, to date, there are no studies investigating socio-demographic and clinical characteristics associated with BizD across the psychosis spe ... Full text Link to item Cite

Treatment refusal in psychiatric practice

Chapter · January 1, 2017 Historically, individuals with mental illness have had more limited rights to refuse treatment than those without mental illness. is was primarily the case for patients committed to psychiatric facilities, but also applied to some voluntary patients (Appel ... Full text Cite

Psychiatric spotlight on child sexual abuse

Journal Article Psychiatric Times · July 1, 2016 Cite