The International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies has announced that Shira Maguen, PhD, has been selected to receive the ...

Wiki Education, a nonprofit organization dedicated to building connections between universities and Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects in the United States and Canada, recently announced that UC ...

Psilocybin, a natural compound found in certain mushrooms, has shown promise in treating depression and anxiety. UC San Francisco researchers wanted to know if it could be used to help Parkinson’s ...

UCSF Health Sciences Associate Clinical Professor Carrie Cunningham, MD, MPH, has been selected as the new director for the Division of Citywide Case Management Programs in the Department of ...

The UCSF Department of Psychiatry and the Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute are among the nation's foremost resources in the fields of child, adolescent, adult and geriatric mental health. Together ...

For adults in midlife, difficulty getting to sleep and waking up too early may accelerate brain atrophy that is associated with dementia. The brain naturally begins to atrophy beginning in one’s 30s ...

DPBS faculty member Samantha Abram, PhD, and postdoctoral scholar Xiyu Zhu, PhD have been awarded 2024 Young Investigator Grants by the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation (BBRF) in recognition of ...

Psychotherapy sessions with caregivers may help prevent serious disease later in life for young children who have experienced significant trauma, a new UC San Francisco study found. Past research has ...

More than 40 elementary schools in SFUSD, and 19 in Mexico, use a UCSF program that helps students with attention challenges – and guides their parents and teachers in supporting them.

The UCSF Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences has appointed accomplished clinician-researcher Aric A. Prather, PhD, as the new director of the Center for Health and Community (CHC), a ...

Perpetual stress runs us down. But a truly restorative state that alters our bodies at the cellular level can counter this deterioration.