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

Electricity is the brain’s language. For a decade, National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding has enabled UC San Francisco physician-scientists to decipher this language and use deep brain ...

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 ...

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 ...

Psilocybin, a natural compound found in certain mushrooms, has shown promise in treating depression and anxiety. UC San Francisco researchers wanted to know if it could be used to help Parkinson’s ...

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Perpetual stress runs us down. But a truly restorative state that alters our bodies at the cellular level can counter this deterioration.

Over time, these subtle and, sometimes, not so subtle slights can lead to everything from poor sleep to low self esteem and even depression.

Nancy E. Adler, PhD, the visionary who co-authored the foundational textbook of health psychology in 1979 and dedicated her life to understanding the profound link between social factors and health, ...

As more medications move toward federal approval for Alzheimer’s disease, a new study led by researchers at UC San Francisco and Kaiser Permanente Washington has found that personalized health and ...