DrBrandonWeiss

Summary

Brandon is a Clinical Psychologist exploring the psychological and physiological ways in which psychedelics impact personality, well-being, and post-traumatic stress. Brandon currently serves as a postdoctoral researcher in the Centre for Psychedelic Research and Neuropsychopharmacology, where he leads the laboratory-based self-blinding microdosing study. This study utilizes a novel self-blinding framework through which participants blind themselves to whether they are ingesting placebo or a psychedelic microdoses. Brandon is also active in investigating the therapeutic effects of indigenous psychedelic practices such as ayahuasca and ibogaine for the special forces veteran population. He completed his PhD at the University of Georgia and clinical training at the San Diego VA / UCSD consortium. As a clinician, Brandon is trained in the treatment of PTSD and complex disorder profiles involving substance misuse, stress, and depression using largely cognitive-behavioral, dialectical-behavioral, and acceptance-commitment modalities.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandonweiss1/

Media Commentary

Forbes (general population personality change), Forbes (ayahuasca), PsyPost.org, IFLS.com, Therapytips.com (ayahuasca), Therapytips.com (general use)

Publications:

Weiss, B., Miller, J. D., Carter, N. T., & Campbell, W. K. (2021). Examining changes in personality following shamanic ceremonial use of ayahuasca. Scientific Reports, 11, 1-15.

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 Weiss, B.,  Nygart, V., Pommerencke, L. M., Carhart-Harris, R., & Erritzoe, D. (2021). Examining psychedelic-induced changes in social functioning and connectedness in a naturalistic online sample using the Five-Factor Model of personality. Frontiers in Psychology.

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 Weiss, B., Jahn, A., Hyatt, C. S., Owens, Carter, N. T., Sweet, L. H., Miller, J. D., & Haas, B. W. (2021). Investigating the neural substrates of Antagonistic Externalizing and social-cognitive Theory of Mind: An fMRI examination of functional activity and synchrony. Journal of Personality Neuroscience. 4, 1-10.

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 Weiss, B., Crowe, M., Harris, A., Carter, N. T., Lynam, D. R., Watts, A. L., Lilienfeld, S. O., Skeem, J. L., & Miller J. D. (2019). Examining hypothesized curvilinear and interactive relations between psychopathic traits and externalizing problems in an offender sample using item response-based analysis. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 128, 689-699.

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 Weiss, B., Campbell, W. K., Lynam, D. L., Miller, J. D. (2019). A trifurcated model of Narcissism: On the pivotal role of trait Antagonism. In J. D. Miller & D. R. Lynam (Eds.), The Handbook of Antagonism: Conceptualizations, Assessment, Consequences, and Treatment of the Low End of Agreeableness. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Elsevier.

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 Weiss, B., Lavner, J. A., & Miller, J. D. (2018). Self- and partner-reported psychopathic traits’ relations with couples’ communication, marital satisfaction trajectories, and divorce in a longitudinal sample. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, 9, 239–249.

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