Richard Weiss

About

Richard Weiss is a Professor Emeritus at UCLA in the Department of History. His current research interests include the study of the influence of Alfred Adler in the United States and the experience of migration in American history. He earned his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1966 and is a graduate of the Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute, completed in 1997. Weiss has contributed to the understanding of American cultural and social history through his publications, including 'The American Myth of Success: From Horatio Alger to Norman Vincent Peale' and co-editing 'The Great Fear: Race in the Mind of America.' His work also includes articles on racism during the era of industrialization and ethnicity and reform during the Depression years.

Research topics

• Medicine
• Psychiatry
• Psychology
• Pediatrics
• Gerontology
• Internal medicine
• Emergency medicine
• Developmental psychology
• Demography

Selected publications

• Association of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Diagnoses With Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury

  JAMA Pediatrics · 2021 · 48 citations

  Importance: There are conflicting accounts about the risk for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) following traumatic brain injury (TBI), possibly owing to variations between studies in acute TBI severity or when ADHD was assessed postinjury. Analysis of these variations may aid in identifying the risk. Objective: To conduct a meta-analysis of studies assessing ADHD diagnoses in children between ages 4 and 18 years following concussions and mild, moderate, or severe TBI. Data Sources…

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• Association of work-family experience with mid- and late-life memory decline in US women

  Neurology · 2020 · 42 citations

  OBJECTIVE: To test the hypothesis that life course patterns of employment, marriage, and childrearing influence later-life rate of memory decline among women, we examined the relationship of work-family experiences between ages 16 and 50 years and memory decline after age 55 years among US women. METHODS: Participants were women ages ≥55 years in the Health and Retirement Study. Participants reported employment, marital, and parenthood statuses between ages 16 and 50 years. Sequence analysis was…

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• Dysregulated Tricarboxylic Acid Cycle Metabolism Is Associated With Right Ventricular Maladaptation in Pulmonary Vascular Disease

  Journal of the American Heart Association · 2025-05-22 · 7 citations

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  BACKGROUND: Right ventricular (RV) maladaptation to elevated pulmonary afterload is the primary determinant of outcomes in pulmonary artery (PA) hypertension; however, the pathobiological mechanisms underlying RV decompensation remain poorly understood. METHODS: We performed global untargeted metabolomics on plasma from 55 patients who underwent gold-standard RV-PA coupling measurements using multibeat pressure volume loop assessment in a single-center cohort and from 1027 patients with coupling…

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• Comparative Effectiveness of Long-Acting Lipoglycopeptides vs Standard-of-Care Antibiotics in Serious Bacterial Infections

  JAMA Network Open · 2025-05-21 · 6 citations

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  Importance: Serious bacterial infections such as bacteremia, endocarditis, osteomyelitis, and septic arthritis typically require prolonged intravenous antibiotics. Long-acting lipoglycopeptides (laLGPs), such as dalbavancin and oritavancin, offer extended treatment intervals for gram-positive infections that may benefit populations with barriers to traditional treatment, including persons who use drugs (PWUD individuals). Objective: To assess the effectiveness of laLGPs in managing serious bacte…

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• Drivers of kelp forest refugia during successive disturbance events

  Journal of Ecology · 2025-06-13 · 4 citations

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  Abstract Increased ocean temperatures have led to large‐scale declines in many ecologically important species, including kelp forests. Spatial heterogeneity across seascapes could protect kelp individuals and small populations from thermal stress and nutrient limitation. Habitat features within upwelling regions may facilitate the transport of deep, cold water into shallow systems, but little is known about the spatiotemporal occurrence or stability of these climate refugia. Kelp in climate refu…

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Recent grants

• NIH Grant T32AI007370

  NIH · $4.5M · 2016

• NIH Grant R29GM050011

  NIH · $501k · 1999

Frequent coauthors

• Pamina M. Gorbach

  University of California, Los Angeles

  37 shared

• Eduardo Perelstein

  Cornell University

  36 shared

• D A Faherty

  La Roche College

  36 shared

• L. Weiss

  Cornell University

  36 shared

• A. Constantinescu

  36 shared

• Isabel Roberti

  36 shared

• Erica Christen

  Feinstein Institute for Medical Research

  36 shared

• Howard Trachtman

  Michigan United

  36 shared

Education

• Ph.D., Statistics

  University of Minnesota Twin Cities

  1989

• M.S., Statistics

  University of Minnesota Twin Cities

  1987

• B.Math, Mathematics

  University of Minnesota Twin Cities

  1984

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