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 ...

As an organization that touches every part of the San Francisco and the greater Bay Area, the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences is committed to providing meaningful acts of of public ...

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 ...

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 ...

Some 13% of older adults are diagnosed with traumatic brain injury (TBI), according to a study by UC San Francisco and the San Francisco VA Health Care System. These injuries are typically caused by ...

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

People with HIV were more likely to report suicidal thoughts if they had been diagnosed with depression or anxiety, misused stimulants, or reported use of multiple substances, according to new ...

Four UCSF Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences researchers—Joshua L. Cohen, MD, PhD; Sasha Gorrell, PhD; Alexandra Klein, PhD; and Nicky Mehtani, MD—have been awarded 2023 Young ...

The UCSF Center for Health and Community and UCSF Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences will host an academic lecture honoring longtime faculty member and pioneering social scientist Nancy ...

The San Francisco VA Health Care System is recruiting for a two-year postdoctoral advanced fellowship program in mental health research and treatment with a focus on the neurobiology of schizophrenia.