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Jacob P Feigal

Jacob P Feigal

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Adult Psychiatry & Psychology
DUMC 3670, 40 Duke Medicine Circle, Durham, NC 27710

Scholarly Works

5.17 Consolidating Literature and Clinical Practice: Developing a Pediatric Catatonia Pathway

Conference Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry · October 2025 Full text Cite

Focused ultrasound as an emerging therapy for neuropsychiatric disease: Historical perspectives and a review of current clinical data.

Journal article Psychiatry Clin Neurosci · May 2025 Psychiatric disorders are a common source of disease morbidity with high rates of refractoriness to first-line treatments. As such, many have investigated the utility of neurosurgical interventions for treatment-resistant forms of these conditions. More re ... Full text Link to item Cite

Palliative Electroconvulsive Therapy: A Descriptive Cohort Study.

Journal article J Acad Consult Liaison Psychiatry · 2025 BACKGROUND: Palliative care (PC) is the standard of care for patients with serious medical illnesses, or those conditions associated with high risk of mortality and negative impact on quality of life (QOL). Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is the gold stand ... Full text Link to item Cite

Catatonia in anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis: a case series and approach to improve outcomes with electroconvulsive therapy.

Journal article BMJ Neurol Open · 2024 BACKGROUND: Anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor encephalitis has been recognised to present with the syndrome of catatonia. In severe cases dysautonomia is representative of malignant catatonia. The treatment with benzodiazepines (BZDs) and electroco ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

(013) Don't Hold Your Breath: A Case of Catatonia With Compulsive Breath-Holding Leading to Pneumomediastinum

Conference Journal of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry · November 2023 Full text Cite

Low barrier medication for opioid use disorder at a federally qualified health center: a retrospective cohort study

Conference Addiction Science and Clinical Practice · December 1, 2022 Background: Medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD) reduces mortality, but few patients access MOUD. At a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC), we implemented a low barrier model of MOUD, including same-day MOUD initiation and a harm reduction philos ... Full text Cite

(PO-070) A Case of Takotsubo’s Cardiomyopathy and Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome

Conference Journal of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry · May 2022 Full text Cite

Differences in Clinical Outcomes of Adults Referred to a Homeless Transitional Care Program Based on Multimorbid Health Profiles: A Latent Class Analysis.

Journal article Front Psychiatry · 2021 Background: People experiencing homelessness face significant medical and psychiatric illness, yet few studies have characterized the effects of multimorbidity within this population. This study aimed to (a) delineate unique groups of individuals based on ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Health care utilization following a homeless medical respite pilot program.

Journal article Public Health Nurs · May 2019 OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to evaluate a homeless medical respite pilot program to determine if program participants had health care utilization pattern changes and improved connection to income, housing, and health care resources post progra ... Full text Link to item Cite

Associations between positive emotional well-being and stress-induced myocardial ischemia: Well-being scores predict exercise-induced ischemia.

Journal article J Psychosom Res · February 2017 OBJECTIVE: Depressive symptoms have been associated with myocardial ischemia induced by mental (MSIMI) and exercise (ESIMI) stress in clinically stable ischemic heart disease (IHD) patients, but the association between positive emotions and inducible ische ... Full text Link to item Cite

Homelessness and discharge delays from an urban safety net hospital.

Journal article Public Health · November 2014 OBJECTIVES: Homelessness is associated with increased morbidity and mortality, as well as increased rates of hospitalizations. Once hospitalized, homeless patients have longer hospital stays than housed persons, and hospital costs have been found to be inc ... Full text Link to item Cite