Girls and Women with ADHD
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Founded in 2021, the Duke Center for Girls & Women with ADHD is one of the nation’s only programs dedicated specifically to advancing knowledge about Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in girls and women. The center is part of the Duke ADHD Program, founded 30 years ago.
Our mission is to advance education among patients, families, clinicians, educators and the public about the unique needs of girls and women with ADHD across the lifespan.
Understanding ADHD in Girls and Women
Girls and women with ADHD face distinct challenges throughout their lives. Studies show that girls are more likely to suffer delays in diagnosis and treatment – especially compared with boys – and have difficulties that last well into their adult years.1 By their older adolescence and early adulthood, girls with ADHD are at a significantly increased risk for serious outcomes, such as suicide attempts,2-3 self-harm,3 unplanned pregnancies,4 mood disorders,2 and eating disorders. 5
Empowering and Informing
The Duke Center for Girls & Women with ADHD seeks to address these unique challenges through educational resources and outreach that will help individuals and their families make informed decisions about treatment and care. The center also promotes cutting-edge research to improve diagnosis and treatment.
The Center is committed to enhancing the lives of all individuals who identify as female, regardless of their sex assigned at birth.
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Spring 2023 Newsletter
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Fall 2022 Newsletter
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Summer 2022 Newsletter
Center’s first listening and learning session “powerful and informative”. By… Read More »Summer 2022 Newsletter
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Research Spotlight
This Spotlight breaks down “ADHD in adults with recurrent depression,” published in December 2021.
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Educational Support: IEP and 504 Plans
ADHD can have a substantial impact on children and teens… Read More »Educational Support: IEP and 504 Plans
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Research Spotlight
2021 Study Looked at Hormone-Related Mood-Disorder Symptoms in ADHD Women
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Looking Back on 42 Years of Research on ADHD in Females
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Research Spotlight
2019 study looked at ADHD arcs in boys and girls
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Sleep problems and ADHD
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Sex differences in predicting ADHD clinical diagnosis and pharmacological treatment
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ADHD Awareness: Tips for supporting children and teens with ADHD
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Jonathan Posner Talks about Researching Girls with ADHD
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Jonathan Posner, MD, discusses the new findings from the ABCD study
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Duke Women’s Health Associates at Patterson Place | Durham, NC
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Obstetricians and gynecologists in Durham provide reproductive care to women of all ages, from your first visit with a gynecologist through family planning and menopause. Women who come to us for prenatal care deliver their babies at the Duke Birthing Center at Duke University Hospital.
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Our ob-gyn specialists provide personalized care at every stage of your life.
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Gynecologists in Durham
As your gynecologists, we offer a full range of gynecological care — from annual return visits to diagnosing and treating conditions that affect the female reproductive system — throughout your childbearing years and beyond.
Your routine gynecological care may include:
- A physical exam
- Annual screenings, including a breast exam, Pap test, and HPV test to screen for cervical cancer
- Birth control counseling (placement of any contraceptive implants, such as IUDs, occurs at a follow-up visit)
- Sexually transmitted disease screenings (as appropriate)
We diagnose and treat women who experience abnormal uterine bleeding, fibroids, endometriosis, uterine abnormalities, ovarian cysts, urinary tract infections, and symptoms of menopause.
If abnormal cells are identified through your Pap test, we may recommend you undergo one of the following procedures in our office:
- Colposcopy. Examines your cervix, vagina, or vulva for precancerous changes.
- LEEP (loop electrosurgical excision procedure). Removes abnormal cervical cells.
If you experience abnormal bleeding, we may perform:
- Hysteroscopy to diagnose and treat the causes of abnormal bleeding
Prenatal Care
If you are already pregnant, we can provide prenatal care during your pregnancy to prepare you for delivery.
During your first pregnancy visit, we will confirm your pregnancy test results and counsel you on how to take care of yourself as your baby grows. That includes nutrition advice and information on which medications are safe to take during pregnancy.
We perform first-trimester sonograms and help you develop your birth plan, whether that means planning for a natural birth or including the use of medications and pain-relief during your delivery.
We also take care of women with high-risk pregnancies and partner with specialists who can help ensure you have a healthy, safe delivery at the Duke Birthing Center at Duke University Hospital.
Planning Pregnancy/Fertility Concerns
If you are planning to become pregnant or are having difficulty getting pregnant, our obstetricians can identify medical issues that can prevent conception. If the problem is more complex, we can refer you to the Duke Fertility Center to pinpoint the cause of infertility and offer appropriate treatment options.
Specialized Gynecological Care for Children and Teens
Children and teens can receive care from a board-certified pediatric and adolescent gynecologist who is trained to care for children from newborns to age 21 with gynecologic conditions that may require medical or surgical intervention.
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About Us
Duke Women’s Health Associates offers general obstetrics and innovative gynecologic care at three convenient locations — Arringdon in Morrisville, Brier Creek in Raleigh, and this Patterson Place in Durham. Our doctors see patients at both locations, so call to make an appointment with the location that is most convenient for you.
Our Patterson Place location is near the US 15-501/I-40 interchange, convenient for patients living in Durham, Chapel Hill and greater Durham County and Orange County.
Our commitment is to provide the best medical care available. We look forward to meeting you and participating in your obstetrical and gynecological care.
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Plan your trip to Duke Women’s Health Associates at Patterson Place through GoDurham bus route 10 and GoTriangle bus route 400. The closest bus stop is McFarland Dr at Witherspoon Blvd. If you have trouble accessing these routes, visit GoDurham Access and GoTriangle Access to check if you meet the ADA eligibility for accessible transit programs.
90,000 Women are incumbent heads of state and government. Dossier
13 July 2016, 14:21,
updated 12 July 2016, 14:21
Brexit
There are currently 22 women heads of state and government of the world , including two queens, ten presidents, six prime ministers and four governors general. Most women leaders in Europe – ten, least of all in Oceania – two. In addition to the queens, the longest-serving government post is the governor-general of Saint Lucia, Perlette Luisi (since 1997).
Europe
Elizabeth II – Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland since 1952; head of the Commonwealth (the association includes 53 states, including Britain). In terms of length of stay on the throne, he ranks first among all British monarchs (64 years). In terms of the duration of being in power among all modern reigning persons, she is the second after the King of Thailand, Bhumibol Adulyadej (66 years old). Initiated numerous reforms of the British system of succession. The portrait of Elizabeth II is depicted on the banknotes of more than 30 countries. Husband – Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. There are four children in the family: Charles, Prince of Wales; Princess Anna; Prince Andrew, Duke of York; Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex.
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“Too-too-doo-doo”: British Prime Minister David Cameron leaves office with a song after Margaret Thatcher (she held this post in 1979-1990). Also in 2010-2016. was the British Home Secretary (the second woman in the history of the country in this position after Jackie Smith, who headed the ministry in 2007-2009gg.). According to experts, May has been in this post longer than any of her predecessors since the end of World War II (in 1945-1951, the ministry was headed by James Ead). Mei’s main passion is cooking, she has a collection of over 100 cookbooks. Husband – Philip John May, an employee of the American trust company Capital Group Companies. Have no children.
Margrethe II – Queen of Denmark since 1972. She became the second woman on the Danish throne (her predecessor Margrethe I ruled the country in the early Middle Ages). Engaged in charitable activities. Many societies and foundations operate under her patronage, including the Royal Danish Scientific Society, the Royal Orphanage, national associations for the fight against tuberculosis and cancer. At 1975 became the first European monarch to visit the USSR. Husband – Prince Consort Henrik of Denmark. The family has two children: Crown Prince Frederik and Prince Joachim.
Angela Merkel – Federal Chancellor of Germany since 2005, the first woman in this post. Three times in a row she was elected to the post of head of the German government. In 2016, for the 11th time, she topped the annual ranking of the most influential women according to the American Forbes magazine. Married to Joachim Sauer. The Chancellor has no children of his own.
Dalia Grybauskaitė – President of Lithuania since 2009. She is the first woman in this position in the history of the country, and also the first president to be re-elected for a second term. The media called her the “Iron Lady” and compared her to Margaret Thatcher. Has a black belt in karate. Single.
Maria Luisa Coleiro Preca – President of Malta since 2014. She became the youngest president of the republic (54 years old) and the second woman in this post. Married to Edgar Preca and has a daughter.
Erna Solberg – Prime Minister of Norway since 2013. The second woman in this post in the history of the country and the first Prime Minister from the Conservatives since 1990. Spouse – Sindre Finnes. There are two daughters in the family.
Beata Szydło – Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Poland since 2015. The third woman in this position in the history of the country. Married to Edward Shidlo, two sons.
Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović – President of Croatia since 2015. Became the youngest president (46 years old) and the first woman in this post in the history of the country. Spouse – Yakov Kitarovich. There are two children in the family – a son and a daughter.
Kersti Kaljulaid – President of Estonia since 2016. The first woman in this position in the history of the country. Knows English, French, Finnish and Russian. Married for the second time. Spouse – Georg-Rene Maksimovsky. The family has a daughter and three sons (daughter and eldest son from the first marriage).
Asia
Park Geun-hye – President of the Republic of Korea since 2013, the first woman in this post in the history of the country. Daughter of former President Park Chung-hee (1962-1979). For her role in the success of the conservative party “Sanuri” in the elections of various levels, she received the nickname “Queen of the Elections”. Never married, no children.
Bidhya Devi Bhandari – President of Nepal since 2015. She became the first female president and supreme commander of the state. Widow, mother of two children.
Sheikh Hasina Wazed is the second woman head of government in the history of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh (1996-2001, 2009-present). Daughter of Mujibur Rahman – the first prime minister (1972-1975) and president (1975) of the state. Survived more than 30 attempts, as a result of one of them (August 21, 2004), according to various estimates, from 19 to 24 people died. Widow, mother of two children.
Africa
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf – President of Liberia since 2006. The first female president in the history of Africa, the oldest woman at the head of state or government (77 years). The only one among the current female heads of state is the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (for her contribution to the non-violent struggle for the security and protection of women’s rights and participation in peacekeeping, 2011). In 2012, she was included in the list of the hundred most influential women in the world according to Forbes magazine. Divorced, has four children.
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Amina Gharib-Fakim – President of the Republic of Mauritius since 2015. The first woman and the first professor in this position. Doctor of Chemistry, specialist in the study of the flora of the Mascarene Islands and its use in medicine and pharmacology. Author and editor-in-chief of more than 20 monographs and about 100 scientific articles. Married to Anwar Fakim, has a son and a daughter.
Sara Kugongelwa-Amadila – Prime Minister of Namibia since 2015. She became not only the first woman in this post, but also the youngest head of government in the history of the state (at the time she took office she was 47 years old).
Latin America
Marguerite Pindling Governor General of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas since 2014. Married former Prime Minister Linden Pindling (1967–1992, died 2000), whose reign The Bahamas became an independent state (1973). Mother of four children.
Cécile La Grenada – Governor General of Grenada since 2013. First woman in office. By specialty – technologist of food products.
Perlette Luisi – Governor General of Saint Lucia since 1997. The first female head of state in the history of the country. She made a great contribution to the development of education in Saint Lucia.
Michelle Bachelet – Chile’s first female president (2006-2010, 2014-present). She was previously Minister of Health (2000-2002) and Minister of Defense of Chile (2002-2004, the first woman to hold this position in the history of Chile and Latin America). Divorced, three children.
Oceania
Hilda Hein – President of the Marshall Islands since January 2016. She is the first woman in this position, as well as the first and so far the only citizen of the Marshall Islands to hold a doctorate. Leads an active fight for the rights of women in Oceania. Founder of the advocacy group “Women of the Marshall Islands”. Her election was an important event for the whole of Oceania, where women’s participation in political life is still limited. Married, four children.
Patsy Reddy – Governor General of New Zealand since 2016. Lawyer specializing in tax, corporate and film law. For a long time she worked in senior positions in a number of New Zealand private and public companies. Husband – David Gascoigne, also a lawyer.
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The story of the Duchess of Marlborough, the most beautiful woman in the world, whose life ended in a lunatic asylum
She was almost completely deaf, she had no teeth, no one had heard a coherent speech from her for many years. She usually denied that she was the duchess at all. She was brought there in 1962, at the age of eighty-one. For several years prior, she had lived barricaded in her home in Chacomba. The villagers recalled how sometimes she went out for a walk in the middle of the night and they saw the flickering light of her pocket torch on the ceilings of their bedrooms.
Gladys invariably began her conversations with me with disgusting stories about the horrors of the asylum. But one day she switched, got carried away by the conversation and said: “Don’t mess with fools. Fools will ruin you like bad hair dye.” From the sparks that jumped in her speech, I could get an idea of \u200b\u200bwhat she was before. He understood what Proust meant when he wrote: “I have never seen a girl of such beauty, such a brilliant mind, such kindness and charm.”
Churchill called the Duchess of Marlborough “a strange, brilliant creature”
Why did everything go wrong? In a way, it was self-destructive. When she was twenty-two, she tried to improve her Greek profile and had wax injections into her nose, a terrible method invented by a Viennese doctor. necrosis developed. After the operation, she lost her legendary beauty.
In a conversation with Count Kaiserling, who cared for her in her youth, who became a great German philosopher, she once formulated her view of this world with two aphorisms: “A human masquerade ball is a lost time” and “Solitude is happiness, it allows you to become anyone. ” The Duchess died at ninety-six, at 1977th.
Her presence is still felt in Blenheim. The exhibition Let’s Misbehave conveys not only the spirit of the Roaring Twenties, but also the atmosphere in which the indomitable duchess lived. Demonstrating Epstein’s modernism, Beaton’s photographs. For those who wish, for a fee, an evening cocktail with dancing and intellectual meetings in the greenhouse are provided. On April 8, for example, the performance “Churchill who saved Blenheim” is scheduled. He, by the way, did not like Gladys, called him “a strange, brilliant creature.” The duchess was even less polite: “There are people who go through life as if they were hitting cymbals. He is one of them.”
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