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Archive: Sandy and Joan Weill donate $106M for brain research at UCSF, UC Berkeley, UW
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Archive: Minds Scarred by Wildfire: How Disasters Linger
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Archive: Anorexia Nervosa Comes in All Sizes, Including Plus Size
Adolescents and young adults with anorexia nervosa whose weight is in the healthy, overweight or obese ranges face similar cardiovascular and other health complications as their counterparts with low BMI.
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Archive: ER Focus on Immediate Medical Issues Can Miss the Bigger Picture
In what is believed to be one of the first analyses of frequent emergency department users to include integrated medical, behavioral and social service data, a new UCSF study comprehensively examined these patients’ use of both medical and nonmedical services.
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Archive: Meth devilishly hard to kick for addicts: ‘No effective treatment’
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Archive: UCSF Receives 10 NIH Grants to Study Pain and Opioid Addiction
UCSF researchers have received 10 grants from the NIH’s HEAL Initiative, which aims to speed scientific solutions to stem the national opioid public health crisis.
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Archive: Food Insecurity in Young Adults Raises Risk for Diabetes, High Blood Pressure, Asthma
Study finds that young adults in the United States who are food insecure are slightly more likely to be obese, and are significantly more likely to suffer from disorders associated with high BMI, as well as obstructive airway diseases like asthma.
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Archive: Anxiety, depression tied to more ER visits with childhood asthma
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Archive: ER Visits Escalate When Kids with Asthma Also Have Depression, Anxiety
Children with asthma have a higher likelihood of also suffering from anxiety and depression, and when all three conditions are present, patients are almost twice as likely as those with asthma alone to seek care in the Emergency Room.
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Archive: New Study: Veterans at greater risk for Dementia and Alzheimer’s
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Archive: Dyslexia, Other Learning Challenges Are Focus of New $20M Initiative
The center will be a a two-campus multidisciplinary clinical and research alliance between UCSF and UC Berkeley.
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Archive: Child's Negative Mood Can Lead to Mother's Depression
While numerous studies have explored the intergenerational transmission of mood disorders from parent to child, little research has been done on whether this connection extends in both directions.
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Archive: Study Finds New Blood Test Could Help Detect Brain Injury In Minutes
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Archive: Simple Blood Test Unmasks Concussions Absent on CT Scans
Blood test that is currently under development may flag concussion in CT-negative patients, enabling them to be evaluated for long-term complications.
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Archive: Living With HIV
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Archive: UCSF Medical Center Ranks Among Top US Hospitals for 2019-2020
For the 21st year, UCSF Health has been listed among the top 10 hospitals nationwide in the prestigious U.S. News & World Report’s Best Hospitals survey.
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Archive: LGBTQ Americans Could Be At Higher Risk For Dementia, Study Finds
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Archive: Bill and Susan Oberndorf give $25M to UCSF for psychiatric research
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Archive: $25M Gift from Susan and Bill Oberndorf Supports Psychiatry, Translational Research
The Susan and Bill Oberndorf Foundation has made a new commitment of $25 million to UCSF psychiatry and the neurosciences, bringing its total giving to "UCSF: The Campaign" to $50 million.
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Archive: Some teens who exercise to build muscle might have eating disorders
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Mental Health on the Margins
Richard Feng, MD, shares a window into his world as a community psychiatrist in San Francisco.
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Archive: Mood Neurons Mature During Adolescence
A new study suggests that the human brain may maintain reserves of immature neurons throughout life, using these “Peter Pan” cells in a similar manner to the neurogenesis seen in other species
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1 in 5 Young Men Engage in ‘Disordered Eating’ That’s Often Unnoticed
Adolescents who see themselves as puny and who exercise to gain weight may be at risk of so-called muscularity-oriented disordered eating behaviors.
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Archive: ‘Motivational Interview’ May Lessen Problem Drinking in People with HIV
A single, 45-minute “motivational interview” with two 20-minute follow-up phone calls may help people with HIV who report unhealthy drinking reduce their alcohol intake. This approach may be
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Archive: Teen boys' eating disorders may focus on muscles, not weight loss
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Archive: Algorithm that Tailors Digital Meditation Program Improves Attention and Memory
The intervention, an app called MediTrain, uses a closed-loop algorithm that tailors the length of meditation sessions to the abilities of the participants.
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Archive: What Does the Microbiome Have to Do with Stress and Depression?
UCSF researchers are exploring whether less diverse or unbalanced microbiome early in life can have lasting effects on a child’s reactions to stress or their risk for depression.
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Archive: How the Mental Health Community Is Bracing for the Impact of Climate Change
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Archive: Brain Changes in Autism Traced to Specific Cell Types
Changes in gene activity in specific brain cells are associated with the severity of autism in children and young adults with the disorder.