Publications by authors named "H F Weisberg"
Clinicians often suspect that a treatment effect can vary across individuals. However, they usually lack "evidence-based" guidance regarding potential heterogeneity of treatment effects (HTE). Potentially actionable HTE is rarely discovered in clinical trials and is widely believed (or rationalized) by researchers to be rare.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTelehealth behavioral interventions are increasingly necessary when in-person services are not accessible (e.g., due to geographic location, time, cost, and health and safety restrictions).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Atypical antipsychotics, also known as second-generation antipsychotics, are commonly prescribed as treatment for psychotic disorders in adults, as well as in children and adolescents with behavioral problems. However, in many cases, second-generation antipsychotics have unwanted side effects, such as weight gain, potentially further increasing risk for morbidities including obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. While various mechanisms for this weight gain have been proposed, including effects on metabolic hormone signaling, recent evidence points to the importance of the gut microbiome in this process.
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- Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often struggle with social communication skills like joint attention (JA), requesting, and social referencing (SR), which can be influenced by their gaze direction.
- A study aimed to replicate previous research methods to teach these skills, finding that prompting and reinforcement were generally effective but that not all children learned each skill, requiring tailored intervention strategies.
- The authors emphasize the importance of modifying intervention plans and offer insights for practitioners to enhance children's social communication skills more effectively.
Background: Dispositional optimism, a generalized expectation for positive outcomes, appears to promote physical health and well-being, including positive effects on cardiovascular disease outcomes. Mechanisms may involve adaptive responses to psychological stressors that dampen their physiological impact.
Purpose: This study investigated (i) whether individual differences in optimism are associated with attenuated cardiovascular reactivity (CVR); (ii) whether the CVR moderating effect of optimism differs for two stress emotions, anger and sadness; and (iii) whether separate measures of optimism and pessimism, and the more commonly used measure that combines them, differ in their relationships with CVR.