Author Archives: samweiss

Each year, thousands of participants come together at the Angus Barn in Raleigh to walk or run a 5K route to show solidarity for family, friends and community members living with a mental illness. Team UNC Psychiatry was 136 people strong this year and raised over $14,000 for our research...

The Carolyn and C. Richard Mattingly Leadership in Mental Health Care Award highlights the significance of mental health to the overall well-being of those living with cystic fibrosis and on the important work of researchers and care teams who address mental health as an integral part of specialized CF care.

Mindful Self-Compassion for Teens, an 8 session program which focuses on cultivating self-compassion as a coping skill for teens, was determined to be feasible, acceptable, and efficacious in preventing the development of clinically significant depression in adolescents with some depressive symptoms.

Peer group mentoring facilitated by senior faculty represents an effective approach. We explored motivations, benefits, and challenges for facilitators enrolled to deploy an intervention in the context of a randomized controlled trial that tested two peer group mentoring strategies for underrepresented early career researchers.

We studied cognitive development and psychopathology in children 4 and 6 years old who where at familial risk for developing schizophrenia and found delayed cognitive development and high rates of symptoms such as anxiety and attention problems, earlier than has previously been described. This indicates that risk for schizophrenia is...

A large cohort of 706 women sexual assault survivors presenting to emergency care were recruited nationwide and followed over one year post-assault. Our findings suggested that the vast majority of women rated their research experience as positive (95-97%), denied drawbacks (84-89%), and reported participating was worth it (93-95%), and these...

This work examines whether there are changes in the self-report of anxiety and depression symptoms in adults with cystic fibrosis (CF) who started taking elexacaftor/tezacaftor/ivacaftor (E/T/I), a new medication that shows great promise in the treatment of CF. The study found that there were no changes in these symptoms in...

Research on resilience after trauma has often focused on individual-level factors (e.g., extensive trauma history) and overlooked influential neighborhood-level factors that may help mitigate the development of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). We applied geospatial analyses to the AURORA Study dataset and evaluated whether greenspace was associated with PTSD trajectories. We...

Band Together was imagined by Triangle community leaders as a response to the tragedies of 9/11. The vision has evolved from raising funds to support international tragedies to raising funds and awareness with a special nonprofit partner every year. This year, fundraising benefits mental health here in the triangle! Dr....