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 ...

UC San Francisco Health Sciences Associate Clinical Professor Carrie Cunningham, MD, MPH, has been selected as the new director for the Division of Citywide Case Management Programs in the Department ...

Science and mental health meet in a UC San Francisco program where clinicians and researchers learn just as much from high school students as they learn from them. Teen Wellness Connection (TWC), ...

A study in Neurology, led by Yue Leng, PhD, and Sasha Milton, followed the sleep patterns of 733 older female participants to see if specific patterns of change were associated with a higher risk of ...

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Weekday mornings used to be exhausting for San Francisco mom Lissette as she tried to shepherd her young son Andrew out the door to school. “He would need constant reminders to get dressed, brush his ...

Maybe a sense of calm comes with a walk in the woods surrounded by birdsong or during the quiet of your morning meditation or evening prayer. Maybe the rhythm of knitting or the earthy smell of ...

About 1 in 5 Americans experience at least one microaggression daily. While not usually overt, microaggressions are subtle acts of racism. And, despite their name, there’s nothing small about their ...

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 ...

While PHP and IOP can help you get on the right path, mental health recovery takes longer than a few weeks. Therefore, it is important to have a plan for your mental health care after the program ends ...

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