UCSF Psychiatry News

Class of 2026

UCSF Adult Psychiatry Residency Training Program matches 16 for its Class of 2026

March 18, 2022
After receiving more than 970 applications, the UCSF Adult Psychiatry Residency Training Program announced that it will welcome a diverse and highly accomplished class of 16 new resident physicians to UCSF this summer.
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Extended napping in seniors may signal dementia

March 17, 2022
A new study shows that increased daytime napping in older people may foreshadow Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias.
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Prenatal mindfulness program improves stress response in infants

March 10, 2022
Infants whose mothers participated in a mindfulness-based program during pregnancy had healthier stress responses at 6 months old, a new UC San Francisco study found.
Award recipients

Four selected as 2022 Grand Rounds Trainee Research Award honorees

March 03, 2022
Four early career researchers 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
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UCSF among top 10 nationally in NIH research funding for psychiatry

February 15, 2022
The UCSF Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences was ranked third among departments at public institutions and 10th among all recipients in psychiatric research grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in fiscal year 2021
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UCSF dyslexia researchers develop tool to flag early reading challenges

February 01, 2022
A UCSF-developed tool to detect early signs of literacy weaknesses that could lead to dyslexia got a boost in the California governor’s recent budget proposal, and could be in widespread use in the state’s public schools by 2023.
Reus

Reus to receive American College of Psychiatrists' Distinguished Service Award

January 31, 2022
Victor I. Reus, MD, has been selected by the American College of Psychiatrists (ACP) to receive the group's 2022 Distinguished Service Award.
Willsey and Chang

Willsey, Chang named to second cohort of Chan Zuckerberg Biohub investigators

January 11, 2022
Neuroscience researchers Helen Willsey, PhD, and Edward Chang, MD, were among the 29 UCSF faculty members named to the second cohort of Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigators.
Barondes in 1992

New oral history explores the life and career of pioneering psychiatrist and neuroscientist Samuel Barondes

January 03, 2022
The UC Berkeley Bancroft Library's Oral History Center has released a new comprehensive oral history chronicling the life and career of Jeanne and Sanford Robertson Endowed Chair and Chair Emeritus Samuel Barondes, MD.
Pawl

In Memoriam: Jeree H. Pawl, PhD

December 17, 2021
The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences mourns the passing and celebrates the life of Dr. Jeree H. Pawl, who passed away peacefully on November 19, 2021.

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