UCSF Psychiatry News

Class of 2028

UCSF Adult Psychiatry Residency Training Program welcomes 16 into its Class of 2028

March 15, 2024
The UC San Francisco Adult Psychiatry Residency Training Program (RTP) revealed that it will welcome a full class of 16 new resident physicians into its Class of 2028 following the announcement of the National Resident Matching Program's 2024 Main Residency Match results.
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How Daylight Saving Time impacts your sleep—and what to do about it

March 06, 2024
Springing forward an hour leaves Americans so groggy that car accidents and heart attacks spike on ‘Sleepy Monday.’ Here are four tips to avoid it.
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Four selected as 2024 Grand Rounds Trainee Research Award honorees

February 26, 2024
Four early career researchers from the UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences have been selected to present their scholarship and research at Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Grand Rounds events later this spring as part of a series designed to highlight the work of senior trainees

Are body temperature and depression linked? Science says, yes.

February 05, 2024
New study may support heat-based treatment to stimulate self-cooling as new treatment.
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Internationally renowned psychoanalytic and psychotherapy researcher Jacques Barber to speak at 2024 Wallerstein Lecture

January 30, 2024
The UCSF Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences will host the 18th Robert S. Wallerstein Lecture in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy on Wednesday, March 20, 2024, from 1:00–3:00 p.m. PDT at the UCSF Nancy Friend Pritzker Psychiatry Building. The event's keynote lecture, "My Journey as a Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Researcher: The Process of Studying Outcome and the Outcome of Studying Processes," will be delivered by this year's honoree, Adelphi University's Jacques P. Barber, PhD, ABPP.
2024-2025 chiefs

UCSF Adult Psychiatry Residency Training Program announces chief residents for the 2024-2025 academic year

January 16, 2024
The UC San Francisco Adult Psychiatry Residency Training Program (RTP) has announced its new chief residents for the upcoming 2024-2025 academic year.
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Nancy Adler, ‘icon in American medicine’ and architect of health psychology and social determinants of health, dies at 77

January 09, 2024
Nancy E. Adler, PhD, the visionary who co-authored the foundational textbook of health psychology in 1979 and dedicated her life to understanding the profound link between social factors and health, died peacefully at her home on January 4, 2024, at the age of 77.
photograph of Yue Leng, PhD and Kristine Yaffe, MD

For dementia prevention, sleep quality in midlife matters more

January 03, 2024
UCSF-led study shows that tossing and turning may signal cognitive decline years later.
Microscope image of a brain organoid derived from human stem cells that contain a mutation associated with autism spectrum disorder.

How proteins interact may hold the key to future autism treatments

December 15, 2023
A cross-disciplinary collaboration at UC San Francisco has taken a new approach that has begun revealing, in detail, how a set of around 100 ASD genes may lead to serious developmental problems, often resulting in severe and profound autism that impacts as many as 20% to 30% of people on the spectrum.
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9 tips to cope with stress and cultivate joy this holiday season

December 12, 2023
Did you know that we often have more control over our feels and anxiety than we think?

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