Author Archives: samweiss

Barriers and facilitators to implementing the HEADSS psychosocial screening tool for adolescents living with HIV/AIDS in teen club program in Malawi: health care providers perspectives.

Among 149 women with breast cancer, 40% reported at least mild depression and 52% reported at least mild anxiety at the end of chemotherapy. These mental health symptoms at the end of chemotherapy were predictive of future prescriptions for psychiatric medications in the first several years after treatment.

This work identifies lasting behavioral changes and adaptations in glutamatergic targets in the insular cortex and BNST following a stressor exposure and a role for mGlu3 signaling in some of these changes.

This study examined the degree to which a prior history of depression and PTSD influenced the development of these outcomes in a cohort of individuals (n=1306) presenting to the emergency department after a new index trauma (motor vehicle collision). A prior history of these disorders were dominant risk factors for...