UCSF Psychiatry News

A new UCSF–led study shows that failure to follow a basic principle of population science can profoundly skew the results of brain imaging studies, leading to errors that may be throwing off neuroscientists’ understanding of normal brain development.

The 64th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) will be held Monday, October 23–28 in Washington, DC and numerous current and former UCSF faculty members and trainees will be in attendance.

Join AHP staff and volunteers on Friday, October 20 for the 21st annual Art for AIDS, starting at 6:00 pm at the City View at Metreon.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded grants to two UC San Francisco researchers to pursue innovative approaches to major contemporary challenges in biomedical research, including one from the UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences.

The UCSF Department of Psychiatry hosted a special event to recognize and honor the contributions of its staff employees last week.

Three UCSF Psychiatry members were singled out for acclaim by their peers at the Association of Academic Psychiatry (AAP)'s 2017 Annual Meeting in Denver.

They are bright and creative investigators, highly committed to improving world health, but what makes some UCGHI GloCal Health fellows special is their street smarts and ability to get into tough communities and engage the people hardest hit by physical and social ills.

People with serious mental illness, such as bipolar disease and schizophrenia, die on average 25 years earlier than their peers. A common cause of death is heart disease that frequently develops unchecked due to lack of preventive care.

The 11th Annual Sugar, Stress, Environment, and Weight (SSEW) Symposium,will be held on Wednesday, October 25, in Los Angeles.

Christine Khuu, MBA, has been selected as the UCSF Department of Psychiatry's new Chief Financial Officer.