Author Archives: samweiss

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....

The National Institutes of Mental Health awarded a $2.5-million grant to UNC School of Medicine researchers Adam Bryant Miller, PhD, and Andrea Pelletier-Baldelli, PhD, in the UNC Department of Psychiatry, to study the alarming rise of suicidal behavior in young girls.

In a small pilot study, UNC School of Medicine researchers led by Flavio Frohlich, PhD, used a new closed-loop system to measure the electrical brain patterns of individual patients and then stimulate those patterns with a weak electrical current, resulting in significantly improved symptoms of major depressive disorder

This week our acute telepsychiatry service leaders visited UNC Health Caldwell where they celebrated the one-year anniversary of launching the first virtual inpatient psychiatry unit. This terrific partnership and collaboration between UNC Health Caldwell Jonas Hill Hospital (Alicia Stanislaw and David Lowry), the UNC Health Virtual Care team (Jami Mann,...