Title: Lynne and Marc Benioff Endowed Chair in Psychiatry; Clinical Professor; Director, The Women's and Teen Girls' Mood and Hormone Clinic
Education:
Yale University Medical School, MD
Postgraduate Training:
Harvard University, Psychiatry Residency
Biography Summary:
Dr. Brizendine graduated from UC, Berkeley in Neurobiology, Yale University in Medicine and Harvard Medical School in Psychiatry. She served on the faculty at Harvard Medical School before joining the faculty at the University of California, San Francisco. At UCSF, Dr. Brizendine pursues active clinical, teaching, writing and research activities. She holds the Lynne and Marc Beniofff endowed chair in psychiatry.
Clinical Expertise:
women's moods, depression, anxiety as they relate to the effects of hormones on the female brain.
Educational Expertise:
the female brain, women's hormones, treatment of depression in women, treatment of sexual complaints in women, PMS, teenage girls mood, sex and anxiety complaints, pregnancy and moods, postpartum depression and anxiety, perimenopause and mood, sleep and sexual complaints postmenopause and depression, sexual complaints and memory complaints
Research Areas:
hormones in women's psychiatry; n 1994, Dr. Brizendine founded the UCSF Women's Mood and Hormone Clinic and continues to serve as it's director. The Women's Mood and Hormone Clinic is a unique psychiatric clinic designed to assess and treat women of all ages experiencing disruption of mood, energy, anxiety, sexual function and well-being due to hormonal influences on the brain. In addition Dr. Brizendine instructs and supervises residents, fellows, and medical students in this Clinic throughout the year helping young doctors learn more about this important area in women's mental, sexual and physical health.
Campus Location: Parnassus
Publications on PubMed »
Adult Continuing Care ClinicConsultation and Brief Intervention ServiceWomen's and Teen Girl's Mood and Hormone ClinicWebsite for Louann Brizendine