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.

The UCSF Department of Psychiatry and the Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute are among the nation's foremost resources in the fields of child, adolescent, adult and geriatric mental health. Together ...

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 ...

First-year psychiatry resident Sahana Kribakaran, MD, PhD, has been selected as the recipient of the 2025 PGY-1 Krevans Award by her peers and faculty members at Zuckerberg San Francisco General ...

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 ...

In partnership with UC San Diego and San Diego State University, we are conducting the signature R01 of a NIMH ALACRITY Center, “Center for Team Effectiveness to Accelerate EBP Implementation in ...

A low-cost, prenatal intervention benefits mothers’ mental health up to eight years later, a new UC San Francisco study finds. In the study, one of the first to look at outcomes so far into the future ...

Four early career researchers have been selected to present their scholarship and research at Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Grand Rounds events ...

CHANGE SF is a new program that will provide paid work-based learning opportunities for youth and young adults in the fields of mental and behavioral health and psychiatry.

UCSF's Kristine Yaffe, MD, has been selected to receive an NIA Leadership Award for Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias (ADRD) Research.

The Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science (IAPHS) has chosen UC San Francisco researcher Nancy Adler, PhD, to receive its 2020 J. Michael McGinnis Leadership Excellence Award.