Patient Care
Preventing Depression Requires Proactive Interventions by Health Care System
May 14, 2012Since major depressive episodes can be prevented, the health care system should provide routine access to depression-prevention interventions, just as patients receive standard vaccines, UCSF researcher Ricardo F. Muñoz says.
Research
Songbirds’ Learning Hub in Brain Offers Insight into Motor Control
May 20, 2012UCSF scientists have shown that a key brain structure in the Bengalese finch acts as a learning hub, receiving information that helps to improve its song, a finding which may lead to new ways to treat neurological disorders that impair movement such as Parkinson’s disease.
Education
In Focus: 2012 Commencement Season
May 15, 2012
UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann celebrated the start of the 2012 commencement season at UCSF with a speech congratulating 806 graduates who she says are destined to be future leaders in health sciences.
Support UCSF
UCSF launches a four-year, $100 million education fundraising initiative, the first initiative of its kind at UCSF. The goal is to raise $80 million for new scholarships and fellowships and $20 million for curriculum innovation, interprofessional education, and teaching facilities.
Community Involvement
UCSF's "Committed to the City" series takes a look at how the University helps kids learn how to manage their anger while excelling on the field and in the classroom by providing scientifically based curriculum at after-school programs.
