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UCSF to Host 'Depression Across the Lifespan'
UCSF's experts in mental health will discuss depression across the lifespan on Thursday, Oct. 10, coinciding with National Depression Screening Day.
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Higher Calorie Diets Shorten Hospital Stays for Teens with Anorexia
For adolescents hospitalized with anorexia nervosa, higher calorie diets produce twice the rate of weight gain compared to the lower calorie diets currently recommended, according to a study by researchers at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital.
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PTSD Reviewed
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Cocaine Rewires Brain After Single Use, Study Says
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Drug Addiction - Cocaine Alters Mice's Brains
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UCSF to Go Completely Tobacco-Free on September 3
UCSF will require everyone who works and studies at UCSF, including faculty, staff, students, trainees, contractors and volunteers, to be tobacco-free.
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Cocaine Rewires Brain, Overrides Decision-Making After Just One Use, Says Study
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Cocaine Use Leads to Rapid Growth of New Mouse Brain Structures
Mice given cocaine showed rapid growth in new brain structures associated with learning and memory, according to a research team from the Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center at UCSF.
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Quit Smoking Program Helps Psychiatric Patients, Too
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Psychiatric Patients Who Quit Smoking Less Likely to be Rehospitalized
Patients who participated in a smoking-cessation program during hospitalization for mental illness were able to quit smoking and were less likely to be hospitalized again for their psychiatric conditions.
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Quitting Helps Patients
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How Income Inequality Affects Individual Behavior
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Blocker Inhibits Alcohol Consumption in Rats
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Six Recommended Measures to Prevent Hepatitis C for Young Injection-Drug Users
UCSF researchers are recommending six comprehensive measures to prevent the spread of hepatitis C for the estimated 31,000 young people who may be newly infected each year in the U.S. due to injection-drug use.
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Key Brain Circuits That Control Compulsive Drinking in Rats Identified
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Scientists Identify Key Brain Circuits that Control Compulsive Drinking in Rats
A research team led by scientists from the Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center at UCSF has identified circuitry in the brain that drives compulsive drinking in rats, and likely plays a similar role in humans.
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Why Some Stress Is Good for Sales People
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Anxiety Lingers Long After Cancer
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Breakthrough Study Reveals Biological Basis for Sensory Processing Disorders in Kids
Sensory processing disorders are more prevalent in children than autism. In a groundbreaking new study, UCSF researchers have for the first time shown a biological basis for the disease in the brain structure.
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IVF, Autism Not Linked, but Study Finds Risk of Intellectual Disabilities
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Rare In-Vitro Technique Raises Autism Risk, Study Says
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Tripping Up Memories of Alcohol
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History of Insomnia Raises Risk for PTSD and Depression in Troops
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Is Obesity A Disease?
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Boozy Memory Blocking Reduces Risk of Relapse among Alcohol Abusers
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Study: Deleting Alcohol Memories in Rats Stops Cravings
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Genes Involved in Birth Defects May Also Lead to Mental Illness
Gene mutations that lead to major birth defects may also cause subtle disruptions in the brain that contribute to psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia, autism and bipolar disorder, according to new research by UCSF scientists.
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Alcohol Addiction Relapse Might Be Thwarted By Turning Off Brain Trigger
Researchers at the Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center at UCSF have been able to identify and deactivate a brain pathway linked to memories that cause alcohol cravings in rats.
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Severe Hypoglycemia Begets Dementia, and Vice Versa