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Nicole Helmke

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Adult Psychiatry & Psychology
3643 N. Roxboro Street, Behavioral Health Building, Durham, NC 27704
3643 N. Roxboro Street, Durham, NC 27704

Current Appointments & Affiliations


Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences · 2022 - Present Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Adult Psychiatry & Psychology, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Assistant Professor in Medicine · 2022 - Present Medicine, General Internal Medicine, Medicine

Recent Publications


Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on adult mental health-related admissions at a large university health system in North Carolina - one year into the pandemic.

Journal Article PLoS One · 2023 OBJECTIVE: Pandemic-associated stress may have exacerbated preexisting mental health and substance use disorders (MH/SUD) and caused new MH/SUD diagnoses which would be expected to lead to an increase in visits to emergency departments and hospital admissi ... Full text Open Access Link to item 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
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Education, Training & Certifications


Duke University, School of Medicine · 2015 M.D.