Archive: San Francisco Partnership Launches New Mental Health Center
UCSF is supporting the creation of a new center that will add 54 conservatorship beds to San Francisco’s system of mental health care.
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Archive: For mentally ill homeless patients, new center offers 54 beds and a dose of hope
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Archive: Program Aims to Bridge Gap Between Primary Care and Mental Health Services
A pilot program at UCSF was designed to deliver rapid-access medication management and psychotherapy services to patients with the goal of returning them to their primary care providers for continuing care once they have been stabilized.
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Archive: Study Points to Immune System’s Role in Neural Development
A new study shows that an immune signal named interleukin 33 plays a crucial role in allowing the brain to maintain the optimal number of synapses during the development of the central nervous system.
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Archive: Researchers Discover 'Anxiety Cells' In The Brain
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Archive: Brain’s Immune System May Be Key to Better Treatments for Psychiatric Disorders
Anna Molofsky is researching how synapses pruning and formation occur normally during brain development in the hope of determining how subtle shifts in balance lead to neurodevelopmental disorders.
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Solving the Hardest Problems in Health
UCSF: The Campaign is taking on the world’s most complex health challenges, powered by an exceptional community of mavericks, innovators, and advocates. Together we will make the Bay Area and our world healthier for all.
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Archive: Treating Anxiety in Children
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Archive: A Change of Mind: Scientists Are Learning to Predict Psychosis Years in Advance—and Possibly Prevent It
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Archive: David W. Mortara Donates $25 Million to UCSF School of Nursing
A renowned leader in electrocardiogram (ECG) technology and innovation, David W. Mortara, PhD, has donated $25 million to the UCSF School of Nursing to reduce “alarm fatigue” in nurses and other clinicians, and improve patient care and safety.
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Archive: UCSF Nurses Recognized Nationally for Excellence in Patient Care and Innovation
UCSF Medical Center and UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital San Francisco have earned the prestigious Magnet Recognition® designation by the American Nurses Credentialing Center.
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Archive: Matthew State Awarded Sarnat Prize for Mental Health Research
Matthew State is one of three recipients of the 2017 Rhoda and Bernard Sarnat International Prize in Mental Health given by the National Academy of Medicine.
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Archive: Genetic Testing Puts Nurses at Frontline of Answering Patients’ Emerging Concerns
Genetic testing and new gene therapies may raise new questions for patients, and as front-line health workers, nurses could be the ones answering questions about how they related to health. UCSF has created a new course to help give an overview of the emerging topic.
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Archive: Top Avoidable Emergency Room Visits: Alcohol, Dental Issues and Depression
Alcohol abuse, dental conditions and depression were among the top causes of avoidable emergency room visits nationally.
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Archive: Low-Cost Preventive Care May Help Heart Health for People with Serious Mental Illness
A UCSF study identified a cost-effective way to ensure that people with serious mental illness receive frequent cardiovascular screening: an evidence-based integrated care model that leverages technology.
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Archive: UCSF Names Catherine Gilliss as Dean of School of Nursing
A national leader in nursing who served as dean at two top U.S. universities and is a former member of the UCSF faculty, Catherine L. Gilliss has been appointed dean of the UCSF School of Nursing, one of the preeminent graduate nursing schools in the nation.
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Archive: Talk Therapy with ‘Self-Forgiveness’ Focus Eases PTSD in Vets Who Have Killed
Veterans who have killed in combat and suffer from nightmares, hyper-vigilance to perceived threats, and numbness to people and activities that once made them happy, may be helped by a six-to-eight week talk therapy program.
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Archive: We Don't Know Nearly Enough About LGBTQ Health. A Massive New Study May Change That.
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Archive: Genetics, Altered Brain Structure Offer Window into Autism Severity
Rare deletions or duplications of about 600 genetic “letters” in a region on chromosome 16 confer a high risk of autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) and other neurodevelopmental conditions.
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Archive: Research Aims to Shape More Precise Treatments for Depression in Women
Interim Dean Sandra Weiss of the UCSF School of Nursing is leading three major studies aimed at shedding important light on some of the most pressing issues facing American women with depression and the clinicians who treat them.
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Tackling Childbirth-Related Mortality in the World’s Poorest Place
A new program called Global Action to Improve Nursing and Midwifery (GAIN) aims to train Malawian nurses in leadership and clinical skills to help turn the tide on the world's highest rate of preterm births.
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Nursing Called to Both Mom and Daughter
Peggy Cadbury and Mei-Ling Wong both attended the UCSF School of Nursing, 34 years apart.
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Archive: Another Possible Indignity of Age: Arrest
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Archive: Stress of poverty, racism raise risk of Alzheimer's for African Americans, new research suggests
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Archive: New drug restores memories in brain-damaged mice
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Archive: Elevated Rate of Autism Symptoms Found in Children with Tourette Syndrome
Around one in five children with Tourette syndrome, a neurological disorder characterized by involuntary movements and vocalizations, met criteria for autism in a study headed by UCSF.
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Archive: A Haven From Trauma's Cruel Grip
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Archive: Oprah Talks to BJ Miller About What the Dying Can Teach Us About Living
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Archive: First Clear-Cut Risk Genes for Tourette Disorder Revealed
Researchers made a significant advance, identifying the first “high-confidence” risk gene for Tourette disorder as well as three other probable risk genes.
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Archive: Howard Pinderhughes Inspires Community Healing in 2017 UCSF Last Lecture
Howard Pinderhughes, associate professor and chair of social and behavioral sciences in the UCSF School of Nursing, delivered the 2017 Last Lecture, which has the prompt: “If you had but one lecture to give, what would you say?”