Author Archives: samweiss

The current study explored teacher and caregiver perceptions of family engagement within a teacher-led, task-shifted mental health intervention in an LMIC. Primary school teachers from five schools in Darjeeling, India delivered evidence-based, indicated mental health care to children with mental health needs throughout the school day. Barriers included logistical challenges...

We assessed task-shifting children’s mental health care to teachers as a potential approach to improving access to child mental health care. Findings support the feasibility of task-shifting children’s mental health care to classroom teachers in resource-limited schools. These findings support the potential emergence of “education as mental health therapy” (Ed-MH)...

Gabriel Dichter (UNC Psychiatry), Crystal Schiller (UNC Psychiatry), and David Lalush (Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering) have been awarded a 5-year $3.9-million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to use simultaneous positron emission tomography and functional magnetic resonance imaging (PET-MR) to examine the effects of estradiol on reward...

This study examined data from a randomized controlled trial to determine whether improvements in child social communication skills were mediated through changes in caregiver responsiveness. Results indicated that as caregiver responsiveness increased over 8 months of intervention, the child’s social communication skills also increased, suggesting that caregiver responsiveness may be...

Brain and behavioral markers at 6 and 12 months of age have shown to be predictive of later autism spectrum disorder (ASD). This work proposes a empirically supported research agenda for the development of a very early intervention for infants at very high likelihood of developing ASD symptoms, that can...

This manuscript reports on an innovative approach to examine brain functional network connectivity using an independent component analysis (ICA)-based approach. We evaluated the approach by studying group differences in the context of a study of resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rsfMRI) data collected from schizophrenia (SZ) individuals and healthy controls...