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Archive: How Income Inequality Affects Individual Behavior
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Archive: Why Some Stress Is Good for Sales People
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Archive: Anxiety Lingers Long After Cancer
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Archive: Breakthrough Study Reveals Biological Basis for Sensory Processing Disorders in Kids
Sensory processing disorders are more prevalent in children than autism. In a groundbreaking new study, UCSF researchers have for the first time shown a biological basis for the disease in the brain structure.
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Archive: IVF, Autism Not Linked, but Study Finds Risk of Intellectual Disabilities
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Archive: Rare In-Vitro Technique Raises Autism Risk, Study Says
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Archive: History of Insomnia Raises Risk for PTSD and Depression in Troops
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Archive: Is Obesity A Disease?
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Archive: Genes Involved in Birth Defects May Also Lead to Mental Illness
Gene mutations that lead to major birth defects may also cause subtle disruptions in the brain that contribute to psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia, autism and bipolar disorder, according to new research by UCSF scientists.
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Archive: Severe Hypoglycemia Begets Dementia, and Vice Versa
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Archive: First Hmong UCSF-Fresno Psychiatrist Graduates
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Archive: Couples Who Post About Relationships on Facebook Experience Greater Happiness
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Archive: Feeling Angry, Try Talking!
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Archive: Fewer than Six Hours of Sleep a Night and Waking Too Early 'Increases Heart Disease in Women'
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Archive: Poor Sleep Linked to Worsening of Heart Disease in Women
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Archive: PTSD May Be Prevented, Researchers Find
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Archive: Enzyme Tied to Depression Found
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Archive: Psychiatrists Ponder Gay Mental Health
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Archive: Defining My Dyslexia
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Archive: Depression Linked to Telomere Enzyme, Aging, Chronic Disease
UCSF researchers have found that activity of an enzyme called telomerase is greater, on average, within cells of the immune systems of individuals untreated for major depression.
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Archive: Mental Disorders Manual Under Fire
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Archive: Childhood ADHD Linked to Obesity in Adulthood
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Archive: Revised Manual of Mental Disorders Stirs Controversy
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Archive: Why Is Psychiatry's New Manual So Much Like the Old One?
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Archive: Shaking Off Loneliness
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Archive: Howard Hughes Medical Institute Names Two UCSF Scientists as New Investigators
Two UCSF scientists — brain researcher Michael Brainard, PhD, and cell biologist Dyche Mullins, PhD — have been selected to be Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigators.
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Archive: UCSF Tests New Approach to Treating Veterans with PTSD
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Archive: Antidepressants Linked with Increased Risks After Surgery
Some of the most widely prescribed antidepressant medications are associated with increased risk of bleeding, transfusion, hospital readmission and death when taken around the time of surgery, according to an analysis co-led by UCSF.
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Archive: Stress Has Unexpected Health Benefits – Sometimes