UCSF Psychiatry News

A low-cost, prenatal intervention benefits mothers’ mental health up to eight years later, a new UCSF study finds.

The Northern California Institute for Research and Education, which partners with UC San Francisco and the San Francisco VA Medical Center, has been awarded a five-year, $147 million grant that will expand diversity among Alzheimer’s disease research participants.

The UC San Francisco Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, in partnership with the Greater San Francisco Bay Area chapter of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP), will host a morning of reflection, discussion, and support on Saturday, November 19, 2022, for International Survivors of Suicide Loss Day.

In a new paper in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), a group led by UC San Francisco and UC Davis researchers describe how abortion restrictions will disproportionately harm the mental health of pregnant people from historically marginalized groups.

Ashley Biden, MSW, social worker and justice reform advocate, was welcomed to UCSF by colleagues and representatives from the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and community organizations supporting victims of violent crime.

UC San Francisco professor Lisa Fortuna, MD, MPH, MDiv, has been selected to receive the 2022 Frances J. Bonner, MD Award by the Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Psychiatry in recognition of her work in the fields of child psychiatry and social medicine.

Two UCSF Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences researchers — David B. Kastner, MD, PhD, and Aarron J. Phensy, PhD — have been awarded 2022 Young Investigator Grants by the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation (BBRF) in recognition of their work as promising young scientists conducting innovative, cutting-edge neurobiological and psychiatric research.

The 69th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) will be held October 17–22, 2022, in Toronto.

UC San Francisco and VA researcher Judith M. Ford, PhD, has been named a recipient of the 2022 William S. Middleton Award, the VA's highest annual honor for senior biomedical research scientists.

A new study from UCSF found that about 50% of all mothers of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) had elevated levels of depressive symptoms over 18 months, while rates were much lower (6% to 13.6%) for mothers with neurotypical children in the same period.