UCSF Psychiatry News

With federal funding, UCSF researchers develop technology to deliver electrical pulses based on patients’ own brain waves.

In a post-truth world, this false belief researcher offers a simple three-step recipe for building trust and finding common ground. Hint: It starts by recognizing you might be wrong.

Eating disorders affect more than 5% of young people, and they have one of the highest mortality rates of any mental illness. Those who received eight or more therapy sessions were 25 times less likely to be readmitted than those who received three or fewer sessions. Outpatient providers don’t need to be specialists or experts in eating disorders to help young people with these conditions stay out of the hospital.

The International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies has announced that Shira Maguen, PhD, has been selected to receive the group's 2025 Robert S. Laufer Memorial Award for Outstanding Scientific Achievement.

Psychologist Megan McCarthy, PhD, has been selected to serve as the next Vice Chair for the San Francisco VA Health Care System (SFVAHCS) in the UC San Francisco Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Her appointment will begin August 1, 2025.

Jane Czech, MS, MBA, associate chair for finance and administration in the UC San Francisco Departments of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and Neurology, has been selected as one of this year's recipients of the Holly Smith Award for Exceptional Service to the UCSF School of Medicine.

The 177th Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) will be held Saturday, May 17–Wednesday, May 21, 2025, at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Numerous current and former UCSF Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences faculty members and trainees will be in attendance, including the following current UCSF faculty and trainees scheduled to contribute at one or more sessions.

UCSF and SFVAHCS researcher Kristine Yaffe, MD, was one of a select group of global leaders in dementia and cognitive aging invited to participate in a symposium focusing on brain health organized at the request of the late Pope Francis.

Wiki Education recently announced that UC San Francisco Health Sciences Professor Amin Azzam, MD, will lead its inaugural Medical Community Advisory Committee.

A UCSF pilot study finds psilocybin therapy surprises, showing meaningful improvements in mood, cognition, and motor symptoms.