Author Archives: samweiss

Investigators assessed the course of adverse posttraumatic neuropsychiatric sequela symptoms (pain, depression, sleep, nightmares, avoidance, re-experiencing, anxiety, hyperarousal, somatic, and mental/fatigue symptoms) in over two thousand patients from the AURORA study over a two month period after a car accident The study found that APNS symptoms were common during the...

Within the AURORA study, participants of different racial/ethnic groups experience different levels of adversity and come from different socioeconomic backgrounds. As a result, these groups differ in basal levels of arousal both behaviorally and neurally which is then related to how MRI biomarkers predict future PTSD symptoms. These results are...

CHAPEL HILL, NC –It is hard to have a conversation about medicine in post- COVID-19 pandemic America and not discuss telehealth. Telehealth (broadly defined as the delivery of clinical and nonclinical health services using telecommunications technology) use has skyrocketed at the onset of the pandemic, with some estimates suggesting telehealth utilization...

Peer mentorship is an important tool to promote faculty success, especially for individuals who engage in (typically undervalued) work to advance gender equity. The purpose of this research letter is to share our experiences establishing a “Gender Equity Works-in-Progress Group.”