Author Archives: samweiss

The Psychoanalytic Center of the Carolinas (PCC) awards fellowships for psychiatry residents and early career psychiatry faculty at residency training programs in NC and SC. Fellows will receive $5,000 to be used flexibly for courses, supervision, and treatment through the PCC and its members, as well as attending meetings of...

Men are less likely than women to seek help for depression, substance use, and stressful life events due to social norms, downplaying symptoms and reluctance to talk.

This handbook examines contemporary issues in self-compassion science and practice. It describes advances in the conceptualization and measurement of self-compassion as well as current evidence from cross-sectional and experimental research. The volume addresses the foundational issues of self-compassion, including its relationship to self-esteem and mindfulness. In addition, it considers the...

Investigators used an at-home EEG recording device to monitor the changes in individual alpha frequency (IAF), a unique brain activity signature in the 8-12 Hz frequency band. IAF day-to-day variability was found to be stable over a 1 month period and was also found to be related to trait anxiety.

As our country aims to implement measures to decrease suicide, of which over half are due to firearms, we explore the role of ERPO (Extreme Risk Protection Order) laws to temporarily remove guns from individuals at elevated risk.

We have discovered distinct roles for the primary (A1) and secondary (A2) auditory cortices in the extraction of complex sound features: specifically, frequency modulation is extracted by A1, while A2 encodes the concurrent multifrequency spectrum.