UCSF Psychiatry News

UCSF/SFAHCS researcher Judith M. Ford, PhD, has been selected as president of the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation (BBRF)'s Scientific Council.

Substance use, anxiety, depression may be early indicators in the medical record, Kaiser Permanente research indicates.

UCSF faculty member and SFVAHCS psychologist Samuel Wan, PhD, was recognized by the Association of VA Psychologist Leaders (AVAPL) with the group's 2024 Russell B. Lemle Psychology Leadership Award.

Transcranial magnetic simulation is a noninvasive therapy for patients with depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder.

The Steinberg Institute announced today the selection of UCSF's Fumi Mitsuishi, MD, MS, as the first of its 2024 Steinberg Institute Champions. The recognition, awarded each May during Mental Health Awareness Month, honors unsung heroes working to improve the lives of California's most vulnerable.

Over time, these subtle and, sometimes, not so subtle slights can lead to everything from poor sleep to low self esteem and even depression.

The 176th Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) will be held Saturday, May 4–Wednesday, May 8, 2024, at New York's Jacob K. Javits Convention Center and numerous current and former UCSF Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences faculty members and trainees will be in attendance.

Gary Humfleet, PhD, passed away peacefully on April 11, 2024, surrounded by family and friends, after a long battle with cancer. He was nationally known for his work in smoking cessation clinical trials, particularly related to health disparities, treatment of chronic smokers, and those with co-occurring disorders.

First-year psychiatry resident Jacqueline Leon, MD, MPH, been selected as the recipient of the 2024 PGY-1 Krevans Award by her peers and faculty members at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center (ZSFG).

The ideal therapy for a disease works exclusively at the site of the disease, but when it comes to the brain—which is wrapped in a protective barrier and contains thousands of different cell types—this ideal is very hard to achieve.