Author Archives: samweiss

This study reveals that psilocin, the active compound in psychedelic mushrooms, reduces alcohol consumption in female mice by suppressing specific stress-related neurons in the brain. These findings offer new insight into the biological mechanisms that may allow psychedelic therapies to effectively treat alcohol use disorder.

Julia Taylor is a licensed clinical social worker who joined the department of psychiatry as a clinical instructor in 2025.  In her role as Psychoeducational Consultant with the Child and Family Guidance Program and Multidisciplinary Child Psychiatry Collaborative, Ms. Taylor works in conjunction with the child’s multidisciplinary treatment team and partners with the child, their families, and the child’s school. In this role, Ms. Taylor advocates for the child in...

We absolutely knocked it out of the park with fundraising this year for mental illness research through the Walk for Hope!!! With $21,108 raised and 172 participants/donors, we broke our own record by thousands! Thank you so much to all that promoted the event, fundrasied, donated and registered as a...

Dr. Adam Miller and his team are now trying to understand how early suicidal thoughts and behaviors emerge in kids. Their findings, published in the Journal of American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, show that 34% of children reported passive suicidal ideation (thoughts of dying), and 33% reported active...

This study conducted a qualitative analysis of individual interviews and focus groups with caregivers of young people experiencing psychosis to elucidate the challenges associated with navigating the mental healthcare system and providing effective support to their relative. Participants also provided perspectives on desired features and functionality of a digital support...

This scoping review synthesized all interventions that tested either the prevention or improvement of mental health for adolescents living with HIV. It provides valuable insights into improving the mental health of HIV-infected adolescents and can guide further research and practice in this area.

This paper provides the protocol for a pilot trial that will investigate the feasibility, acceptability, fidelity, and preliminary efficacy of a combined youth-friendly suicide prevention and problem-solving intervention in reducing suicidal ideation and behaviors in adolescents living with HIV (ALWH) in Malawi.

This study shows evidence that temporally resolved and functionally contextualized structural basis sets can accurately reflect dynamic functional processes and capture diagnostically relevant structure-functional coupling while detecting nuanced functionally driven structural components that cannot be captured with traditionally computed structural bases. Differential analysis of component stability across repeated scans from...

This study suggest that reduced pyramidal cell excitability is present at baseline in future CHR-Converters, supporting the hypothesis that hypofunction of pyramidal cells is a primary pathology in schizophrenia, rather than a consequence of chronic illness. Positive symptoms among CHR-Converters may reflect compensatory downregulation of inhibition.

This study reveals small but consistent associations between negative symptom dimensions and predominantly prefrontal region cortical thickness, and limbic region volumes. These findings advance our understanding of the network of anatomical regions that may contribute to the severity of negative symptoms in schizophrenia.