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Archive: Parents Often Unaware of Kids' Suicidal Thoughts
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Archive: Mental Health Experts Discuss Importance of Early Intervention for Youth Amid Rising Suicide Rates
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Archive: Pre-Deployment Insomnia Linked to Increased Risk of PTSD for Soldiers
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Archive: Benioffs give $15 million to UCSF Oakland hospital for children’s mental health
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Archive: $15M Benioff Gift Expands Children’s Mental Health Services in East Bay
UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland has received a $15 million gift from Lynne and Marc Benioff to address the acute shortage of mental health services for children and adolescents in Oakland and the East Bay, which reflects a nationwide shortage.
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Archive: Depression, Anxiety May Take Same Toll on Health as Smoking and Obesity
Anxiety and depression may be leading predictors of conditions ranging from heart disease to headaches, having similar effects as long-established risk factors like smoking and obesity.
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Archive: Brain Stimulation Relieves Depression Symptoms
Patients with moderate to severe depression reported significant improvements in mood when researchers precisely stimulated a brain region called the orbitofrontal cortex.
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Archive: Classroom Friendships May Offset Effects of Punitive Parents
Angry, threatening and highly critical parenting is more likely to result in children with defiant, noncompliant and revengeful behavior that spills over to adulthood and impacts relationships with all authority figures.
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Archive: Emotional Abuse May Be Linked with Menopause Misery
UCSF has identified another factor that may add to menopause torment: an emotionally abusive partner or spouse.
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Archive: Can Video Games Improve the Health of Older Adults with Schizophrenia?
Video games can offer a safe and easy way for a sedentary population to get started with exercise.
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Archive: Community Choirs Reduce Loneliness and Increase Interest in Life for Older Adults
An innovative San Francisco program of community choirs for older adults found that singing in a choir reduced loneliness and increased interest in life, but did not improve cognition or physical function.
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Archive: Brain Signature of Depressed Mood Unveiled in New Study
New research from UCSF has identified a common pattern of brain activity that may be behind feelings of low mood, particularly in people who have a tendency towards anxiety.
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Archive: Researchers Uncover A Circuit For Sadness In The Human Brain
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Archive: With Disease Agnostic Approach, QBI is Accelerating Ambitious Science
The Quantitative Biosciences Institute attracts investigators on the basis of the tools and techniques they employ, rather than the diseases they study.
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Archive: Early Alzheimer’s Brain Pathology Linked to Psychiatric Symptoms
Researchers have shown that the earliest stages of the brain degeneration associated with Alzheimer’s disease are linked to neuropsychiatric symptoms.
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Archive: New Study Seeks to Manage Toxic Stress in Children
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Archive: New Tourette Disorder Genes Come to Light
In DNA sequencing study of TD, UCSF researchers and their collaborators have unearthed new data suggesting a potential role for disruptions in cell polarity in the development of this condition.
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Archive: Dolby Family Gift Launches New UCSF Center for Mood Disorders
A $20 million gift from longtime UCSF donors Dagmar Dolby and her son, David, will establish the UCSF Dolby Family Center for Mood Disorders within the Department of Psychiatry.
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Archive: Primary Care is an Untapped Resource for Depression Screening
A new study has identified at-risk populations for whom depression screening combined with hazardous alcohol use screening could detect depressive symptoms that might otherwise go untreated.
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Archive: Brain Data Could Read Moods, Potentially Treat Depression
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Archive: Anorexia more stubborn to treat than previously believed, analysis shows
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Archive: Diabetes Added to High Risks for People with Severe Mental Illness
People with severe mental illness are more than twice as likely to have Type 2 diabetes, with even higher risks among patients who are African American or Hispanic, according to a new study led by UCSF.
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Archive: New Program Builds a Primary Care Workforce Tailored to Rural California
With a new project – Rural Health Advanced Practice Training – the UCSF School of Nursing hopes to help fill gaps in health care by encouraging and training advanced practice nurses to work in rural settings.
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The Crisis in Our City: Tackling San Francisco’s Dire Homelessness Problem
Matthew State, chair of UCSF’s Department of Psychiatry, is playing a key role in an ambitious effort to tackle San Francisco’s dire homelessness problem. He answers some tough questions about the challenge.
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2018: A Drug Odyssey
The journey from discovering and developing effective, precise medications to using them correctly and safely in patients is hardly fast and easy. Nor is it a straight shot. Scientists in the UCSF School of Pharmacy are challenging the status quo every step of the way.
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Archive: In Aftermath of North Coast Wildfires, UCSF is Addressing Mental Health of Community Members
Every Saturday, UCSF volunteers provide free, drop-in individual and group crisis counseling to all members of the Sonoma Valley community, with or without insurance or documentation.
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Archive: 2018 Founders Day Awards Honor Public Service, Extraordinary Contributions
To recognize public service, exceptional service to UCSF and excellence in nursing, 11 faculty, staff and students were honored at this year’s UCSF Founders Day Awards.
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Archive: Even milder concussions double dementia risk, UCSF study finds
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Archive: Reinvigorated Nursing Partnership Strengthens Patient Care, Research and Education
Nursing leadership at the UCSF School of Nursing and UCSF Health are leading an effort aimed at optimizing the advantages of tighter integration between the two organizations.