Author Archives: samweiss

Children as young as 5 years old may experience thoughts about suicide, but these behaviors are not well understood. This study involved 98 children 5 to 10 years of age, recruited for potential adversity exposure, and their caregivers, who answered questions about suicidal thoughts and behaviors (STBs) during an in-home...

About 1 in 5 women experience depression at some point during pregnancy and in the year after giving birth, known as perinatal mood and anxiety disorder (PMAD). Antidepressant use during pregnancy isn’t a question of “safe versus unsafe,” but about balancing the risks of untreated depression with the risks of...

This award provides transition funding at the end of her postdoctoral training to support the move into a tenure-track faculty position and includes a $600,000 three-year faculty research grant. Melissa Walsh, Ph.D., is currently a research trainee in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel...

Black caregivers of children with autism often face a lack of understanding and acceptance within their communities, leading to emotional strain and family tensions around diagnoses and support. This study, based on interviews with 23 caregivers, highlights both the challenges of denial and misinformation as well as the presence of...

In this paper we identified an undescribed channel (GluD1) in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BNST) that leads to cell depolarization and alters the function of excitatory transmission. The BNST is an area of the brain involved in stress and anxiety which suggests that changes in this channel’s...