Author Archives: samweiss

Heidi is a therapist with over 20 years of experience providing therapy and supporting enhanced services in community mental health. I received my MSW from the Joint Masters Program at UNCG & NCA&T. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and a Licensed Clinical Addiction Specialist and Certified Clinical Supervisor....

Dr. Tony Lindsey, Psychiatry Professor and UNC Health’s former Chief Medical and Quality Officer, was recently inducted into the Order of the Longleaf Pine, North Carolina’s most prestigious honorary society. Lindsey was surprised by the honor at a recent gathering of leaders from across UNC Health’s statewide network. Following a...

Lauren Schiff, MD, a gynecologic surgeon at the UNC School of Medicine, and Ashley Hester, PhD, a psychologist at the UNC TEACCH Autism Program, outline simple ways physicians can improve quality of care for autistic patients – and how these methods can help everyone who comes into the office. “[Autistic...

“If patients find them helpful and they are not experiencing side effects, I don’t have any issue with antihistamines as part of their treatment plan. SSRIs “remain the standard of care” for moderate to severe PMDD,” Dr. Julia Riddle shared with “If patients find them helpful and they are not...

There are a variety of mental health symptoms that can vary by menstrual phase and by person. Clinical psychologist Crystal Schiller, PhD, director of the UNC Center for Women’s Mood Disorders, recommends tracking your mood across multiple menstrual cycles to see whether there are any patterns, and then planning out self-care activities...

Dr. Dawkins recently received the Dr. Mary G. Austrom Women in Psychiatry Award! The award was presented by alumni, Dr. Emily Holmes, currently psychiatry faculty member at Indiana University School of Medicine, UNC Psychiatry Class of 2016. The Dr. Mary G. Austrom Women in Psychiatry Award is presented each year...

This article reviews what is known about the developing visual system in ASD in the first years of life; it also explores the potential canalizing role that atypical visual system maturation may have in the emergence of ASD by placing findings in the context of developmental cascades involving brain development,...

Alcohol drinking that persists despite negative consequences is a core feature of alcohol use disorder (AUD). Here we investigate whether individual variability in this behavior are due to extended alcohol exposure or pre-existing differences in rats.

In this manuscript we used a mouse model of dementia that harbors a human mutation in the tau protein. We found that neurons that are lost in Alzheimer’s Disease (locus coeruleus norepinephrine neurons) have reduced function as compared to their age matched controls.