9/13/2021
NBC News
Features Timothy Mackey, PhD
9/13/2021
CBS Greenbay
Features Catherine Ayers, PhD
9/13/2021
Pyschology Today
Authored by Dilip Jeste, MD, and Blaire Ehret, PhD
8/31/2021
Times of San Diego
8/30/2021
Science Blog
Features Abraham Palmer, PhD, and Sandra Sanchez-Roige, PhD
8/30/2021
San Diego Union Tribune
Features Peter Davidson, PhD
8/26/2021
Researchers identified 579 locations in the human genome associated with a predisposition to self-regulation-related behaviors, such as addiction. With data from 1.5 million people of European descent ...
8/25/2021
Stem cell models derived from people with specific genomic variation recapitulate aspects of their autism spectrum disorder, providing a valuable model to study the condition and look for therapeutic ...
8/24/2021
U.S. News & World Report
Features William Pelham III, PhD, postdoc scholar
8/18/2021
Times of San Diego
Features Sandra Brown, PhD, vice chancellor, research, Carla Marienfeld, MD, and cites research by Carol Yan, MD, and Stephen Spector, MD ...
8/16/2021
Ottawa Citizen
Features Martin Paulus, MD
8/16/2021
Reuters
Features Natalie Laub, MD
8/16/2021
10News
Features Leo Beletsky, JD, MPH
8/16/2021
KPBS
Features Carla Marienfeld, MD
8/11/2021
U.S. News & World Report
Features Jyoti Mishra, PhD
8/9/2021
NBC News
Features Leo Beletsky, JD, MPH
8/9/2021
Wall Street Journal
Authored by Joel Dimsdale, MD (Emeritus)
8/9/2021
Pychology Today
Authored by Tamara Goldsby, PhD
8/9/2021
Healio
Features Maja Marinkovic, MD
8/9/2021
KPBS
Features Carla Marienfeld, MD
8/9/2021
La Jolla Light
Features Marsida Kallupi, PhD, PharmD, and Olivier George, PhD
8/5/2021
New York Times
Features Dilip Jeste, MD
8/2/2021
The Washington Post
Features Robert Heaton, PhD
8/2/2021
Wired
Features Fadel Zeidan, PhD
7/26/2021
Popular Science
Features Carla Marienfeld, MD
7/26/2021
San Diego Union Tribune
Features Brent Mausbach, PhD
7/7/2021
KPBS
Features Carla Marienfeld, MD
7/5/2021
Medical News Today
Features Walter Kaye, MD
6/30/2021
Verywell Health
Features Jyoti Mishra, PhD
6/30/2021
The Ladders
Features Dilip Jeste, MD
6/29/2021
Neuroscience News
Features Michael Taffe, PhD
6/29/2021
Researchers expose live lobsters to vaporized cannabis and confirm the crustaceans absorb THC. Whether the psychoactive compound affects behavior remains open question.
6/28/2021
NPR
Features Center for Mindfulness
6/28/2021
La Jolla Light
Features Doris Trauner, MD
6/21/2021
Business Insider
Features Katherine Williams, PhD
6/17/2021
Medium
Features Jyoti Mishra, PhD
6/16/2021
Times Now
Features Dilip Jeste, MD
6/14/2021
Forbes
Features Annick Borquez, PhD, and Charlie Marks, MPH, graduate research assistant
6/10/2021
GQ
Features Timothy Furnish, MD
6/10/2021
Researchers at UC San Diego, San Diego State University, and international collaborators have designed and validated a prediction model to signal counties at risk of future overdose death outbreaks.
6/9/2021
Medical Xpress
Features Jyoti Mishra, PhD
6/8/2021
Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine used a combination of modalities, such as measuring brain function, cognition and lifestyle factors, to generate individualized pre ...
6/7/2021
U.S. News & World Report
Features Benjamin Han, PhD
6/7/2021
Los Angeles Times
Features Peter Davidson, PhD
6/3/2021
10News
Features Nathaniel Schuster, MD
6/3/2021
The T. Denny Sanford Institute for Empathy and Compassion has opened its newest center, focused on addressing issues of social justice in health care.
5/31/2021
Health News Digest
Features Anne Cusack, PsyD
5/31/2021
Business Insider
Features Katherine Nguyen Williams, PhD
5/31/2021
U.S. News & World Report
Features Murray Stein MD, MPH
5/26/2021
Technology.org
Features Benjamin Han, MD
5/20/2021
The Medical News
Features Nathaniel Schuster, MD
5/20/2021
Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine found that functional impairments among adults aged 50 and older are associated with a higher risk of medical cannabis use; and pre ...
5/19/2021
UC San Diego Health is conducting the first known randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial looking at cannabis as a potentially effective treatment for acute migraines.
5/18/2021
Medical Xpress
Features Yash Joshi, MD, and Gregory Light, PhD
5/17/2021
UC San Diego researchers report that medications commonly prescribed to reduce the severity of physical and mental health symptoms associated with schizophrenia may have a cumulative effect of worseni ...
5/13/2021
KPBS
Features Anita Raj, PhD, and Nicole Johns, research data analyst
5/6/2021
UC San Diego researchers report that one kind of perceptual learning can occur in memory-impaired persons who do not actually remember what they learned.
5/3/2021
Medscape
Features Mark Wallace, MD
4/28/2021
New York Times
Features Walter Kaye, MD
4/26/2021
The Medical News
Features Olivier George, PhD
4/26/2021
San Diego Union Tribune
Features Dilip Jeste, MD
4/26/2021
San Diego Union Tribune
Authored by Wael Al-Delaimy, MD, PhD
4/26/2021
Researchers have created to novel biobanks of diverse tissues from animals to further explore the biological bases and consequences of addiction to cocaine and oxycodone.
4/23/2021
New York Times
Features Peter Davidson, PhD
4/22/2021
Babies born to mothers diagnosed with cannabis use disorder are more likely to experience negative health outcomes, such as preterm birth and low birth weight, than babies born to mothers without a ca ...
4/20/2021
U.S. News & World Report
Features Isac Thomas, MD, MPH
4/14/2021
Medpage Today
Features Judy Davidson, DNP, RN
4/14/2021
The UC San Diego Autism Center for Excellence has received a $1.5 million gift from Kristin Farmer, founder and chief executive officer of ACES, a company that provides services to children with autis ...
4/12/2021
KUSI
Features Lucy Horton, MD
4/5/2021
Reader's Digest
Features Dilip Jeste, MD
3/29/2021
Interesting Engineering
Features Tanya Nguyen, PhD, and Dilip Jeste, MD
3/25/2021
UC San Diego School of Medicine researchers report that opioid users who participated in a 12-step abstinence program and recently stopped using drugs refused to take home naloxone, even if having it ...
3/25/2021
UC San Diego scientists have taken the connection between wisdom, loneliness and biology one step further, reporting that wisdom and loneliness appear to influence — and/or be influenced by — microbia ...
3/24/2021
Seattle Times
Features Dilip Jeste, MD
3/22/2021
New York Times
Features Benjamin Han, MD, MPH
3/22/2021
The Carlat Report
Features Aaron Besterman, MD
3/22/2021
Medscape
Features Niraj Asthana, MD, resident physician, and Daniel Sewell, MD
3/10/2021
Medpage Today
Features Dilip Jeste, MD
3/9/2021
GEN
Features Jyoti Mishra, PhD, and Dilip Jeste, MD
3/8/2021
AARP News
Features Dilip Jeste, MD
3/8/2021
The Beat
Features Fadel Zeidan, PhD
3/5/2021
In a study published in the March 5, 2021 online edition of Cerebral Cortex, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine found that specific regions of the brain resp ...
3/4/2021
Washington Post
Features Dilip Jeste, MD
3/4/2021
Psychology Today
Features Dilip Jeste, MD
2/24/2021
KUSI
Features Walter Kaye, MD
2/22/2021
ScienceBlog
Features Mark Tuszynski, MD, PhD
2/17/2021
KPBS
Features Timothy Furnish, MD, Adam Halberstadt, PhD, Fadel Zeidan, PhD, and Mark Geyer, PhD (Emeritus)
2/17/2021
The Psychedelics and Health Research Initiative at UC San Diego has received a $1.3 million grant from the Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation to fund a clinical trial investigating the therapeutic po ...
2/16/2021
STAT News
Features Carla Marienfeld, MD
2/16/2021
HealthDay
Features Jyoti Mishra, PhD
2/15/2021
San Diego Union Tribune
Features Erin Parks, PhD
2/10/2021
Good Housekeeping
Features Dilip Jeste, MD
2/9/2021
The Medical News
Features Jyoti Mishra, PhD
2/9/2021
UC San Diego researchers report that climate change is a chronic mental health stressor, and promotes a variety of mental health problems. The 2018 Camp Fire is a case study.
2/8/2021
Psychology Today
Authored by Tamara Goldsby, PhD
2/4/2021
Time
Features Michael Taffe, PhD
2/1/2021
The Medical News
Features Murray Stein, MD, MPH
2/1/2021
New York Times
Features Daniel Werb, PhD
2/1/2021
San Diego Union Tribune
Features Douglas Ziedonis, MD, MPH
1/28/2021
After analyzing the genomes of more 250,000 military veterans, researchers have identified 18 specific, fixed positions on chromosomes that appear associated with post-traumatic stress disorder. The f ...
1/25/2021
AZ Central
Features Walter Kaye, MD
1/18/2021
La Jolla Light
Features Robert Naviaux, MD, PhD
1/12/2021
ScienceDaily
Features Robert Naviaux, MD, PhD
1/12/2021
Researchers at UC San Diego School of Medicine, in collaboration with Dutch scientists, have found that certain metabolites — small molecules produced by the process of metabolism — may be predictive ...
1/4/2021
Forbes
Features Judy Davidson, DNP, RN, and Sidney Zisook, MD
1/4/2021
WTOP
Features UC San Diego Center for Healthy Aging
1/4/2021
Forbes
Cites research at UC San Diego School of Medicine
1/4/2021
Psychology Today
Authored by Tamara Goldsby PhD, and features Paul Mills, PhD
1/4/2021
Wall Street Journal
Features Jack Gilbert, PhD
12/17/2020
Researchers report that hearing loss and high blood sugar are associated with poor cognitive performance among middle-aged and older Latinos.
12/16/2020
The Science Times
Features Laura Crotty Alexander, MD
12/15/2020
Insider
Features Meredith Pung, PhD
12/14/2020
Psychology Today
Authored by Tamara Goldsby, PhD
12/14/2020
UC San Diego researchers report chemicals used for flavor in e-cigarette liquid negatively affect specialized proteins that support immune system.
12/10/2020
Medical Xpress
Features Dilip Jeste, MD
12/1/2020
Shape
Features UC San Diego School of Medicine and UC San Diego Health
11/30/2020
Washington Post
Features Dilip Jeste, MD
11/30/2020
Psychology Today
Features Tanya Nguyen, PhD
11/30/2020
TODAY
Features Dilip Jeste, MD
11/24/2020
American Association for the Advancement of Science honors the contributions of UC San Diego leaders in astrophysics, research advocacy, organic chemistry, psychiatry and geophysics.
11/18/2020
KUSI
Features Daniel Lasoff, MD
11/16/2020
Healio
Features Dilip Jeste, MD
11/16/2020
Forbes
Features Tanya Nguyen, PhD
11/16/2020
Consultant360
Features Raeanne Moore, PhD
11/12/2020
UC San Diego was the first university in California to connect 40,000 student health records to the electronic health record platform of its top-ranked academic medical center, UC San Diego Health. Th ...
11/11/2020
U.S. News & World Report
Features Dilip Jeste, MD, and Tanya Nguyen, PhD
11/10/2020
Seeking to develop effective interventions, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine examined the psychological and environmental factors that lead to patterns of lonelines ...
11/2/2020
San Diego Business Journal
Features Desiree Shapiro, MD
11/2/2020
Times of San Diego
Authored by Dilip Jeste, MD
10/26/2020
Science Blog
Features Dilip Jeste, MD
10/26/2020
Psychology Today
Features Dilip Jeste, MD
10/26/2020
Washington Post
Features Judy Davidson, DNP, RN
10/22/2020
In a recent study, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine found a seventh component of wisdom: spirituality.
10/21/2020
Patch
Cites research by Dilip Jeste, MD
10/20/2020
Atlanta Journal Constitution
Features Christopher Kaufmann, PhD, Kevin Yang, medical student, and Alison Moore, MD
10/20/2020
Healthline
Features Davey Smith, MD
10/20/2020
KUSI
Features Desiree Shapiro, MD
10/14/2020
Times of San Diego
Co-authored by Lisa Delano-Wood, PhD
10/13/2020
Medscape
Features Lisa Delano-Wood, PhD
10/12/2020
Consumer Reports
Features Christopher Kaufmann, PhD, Kevin Yang, med student, and Alison Moore, MD
10/12/2020
U.S. News & World Report
Features Karen Pierce, PhD
10/12/2020
Coronado Eagle & Journal
Features Katherine Nguyen Williams, PhD
10/7/2020
UC San Diego School of Medicine researchers report that older adults are increasingly using cannabis to treat a variety of common health conditions, including pain, sleep disturbances and psychiatric ...
10/5/2020
San Diego Union Tribune
Authored by Wael Al-Delaimy, MD, PhD
10/5/2020
San Diego 7
Features Sonya Norman, PhD
10/1/2020
Science Times
Features Dilip Jeste, MD, and David Brenner, MD, vice chancellor, UC San Diego Health Sciences
10/1/2020
Sify
Features Hector Gonzalez, PhD, and Ariana Stickel, PhD
10/1/2020
Researchers at UC San Diego School of Medicine and University of Rome La Sapienza examined middle-aged and older adults in San Diego and Cilento, Italy and found loneliness and wisdom had a strong neg ...
9/30/2020
Subtle differences in cognition may help identify individuals at risk for becoming dependent years later upon others to complete daily activities, such as managing medications or finances and other es ...
9/28/2020
New Atlas
Features Ellen Lee, MD, Varsha Badal, PhD, and Dilip Jeste, MD
9/28/2020
The Scientist
Features Abraham Palmer, PhD
9/28/2020
Parade
Cites research by John Pierce, PhD (Emeritus), and Karen Messer, PhD
9/28/2020
The Observer
Features Dilip Jeste, MD
9/24/2020
A team led by researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine has used artificial intelligence technologies to analyze natural language patterns to discern degrees of loneliness i ...
9/22/2020
High Times
Cites research at UC San Diego School of Medicine
9/14/2020
Pharmacy Times
Features Lisa Delano-Wood, PhD, and Alexandra Weigand, grad student
9/7/2020
U.S. News & World Report
Features Lisa Delano-Wood, PhD, and Alexandra Weigand, graduate student
9/7/2020
Jerusalem Post
Cites research by John Pierce, PhD (Emeritus), and Karen Messer, PhD
9/4/2020
UC San Diego researchers report that a class of drugs used for a broad array of conditions, from allergies and colds to hypertension and urinary incontinence, may be associated with an increased risk ...
9/2/2020
NewScientist
Features John Pierce, PhD (Emeritus), and Karen Messer, PhD
9/2/2020
Two UC San Diego School of Medicine-led analyses report that e-cigarettes are not effective in helping adults to quit smoking.
9/1/2020
New York Daily News
Features John Ayers, PhD
8/31/2020
San Diego Union Tribune
Authored by David Folsom, MD, and William Perry, PhD
8/31/2020
San Diego Union Tribune
Authored by Martin Stein, MD
8/24/2020
Denver Post
Features UC San Diego School of Medicine
8/17/2020
San Diego Union Tribune
Features Carla Marienfeld, MD
8/12/2020
Medscape
Features Ruben Abagyan, PhD
8/5/2020
Neuroscience News
Features Maksim Bazhenov, PhD
8/5/2020
San Diego Union Tribune
Features Center for Medical Cannabis Research
8/3/2020
U.S News & World Report
Features Ruben Abagyan, PhD
7/30/2020
CNN
Features Ruben Abagyan, PhD
7/30/2020
Zafiris J. “Jeff” Daskalakis, MD, PhD, has been named chair of the Department of Psychiatry at University of California San Diego School of Medicine.
7/30/2020
By analyzing the FDA database of adverse drug effects, UC San Diego researchers discovered that people who received Botox injections — not just in the forehead — reported depression significantly less ...
7/28/2020
New York Times
Cites research at UC San Diego School of Medicine
7/27/2020
La Jolla Light
Features Laura Crotty Alexander, MD
7/21/2020
Inverse
Features Dilip Jeste, MD
7/21/2020
Becker's Hospital Review
Features UC San Diego Health
7/20/2020
The Medical News
Features Borsika Rabin, PhD, MPH, PharmD, Gregory Aarons, PhD, Lauren Brookman-Frazee, PhD, and Nicole Stadnick, PhD, MP ...
7/16/2020
New UC San Diego Dissemination and Implementation Science Center provides researchers and practitioners with the training, technical assistance, mentoring and resources needed to implement their findi ...
7/15/2020
ScienceBlog
Features Doris Trauner, MD
7/14/2020
Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine are recruiting eligible children between the ages of seven and fourteen years for a Phase III clinical trial to determine whether c ...
7/13/2020
U.S. News & World Report
Cites research by Peter Davidson, PhD
7/8/2020
Best Life
Features Mounir Soliman, MD, and Tahir Bhatti, MD
6/29/2020
Medscape
Features Christine Moutier, MD
6/29/2020
Medscape
Features William Perry, PhD, and David Bazzo, MD
6/25/2020
The Washington Post
Features Dilip Jeste, MD
6/17/2020
MSN
Features Dilip Jeste, MD
6/16/2020
AARP
Features Dilip Jeste, MD
6/15/2020
The Medical News
Features William Kremen, PhD, and Carol Franz, PhD
6/15/2020
Researchers at UC San Diego School of Medicine, with colleagues elsewhere, will receive almost $19 million over five years for the fourth phase of the Vietnam Era Twin Study of Aging, which investigat ...
6/9/2020
Mother
Features Susan Tapert, PhD
6/8/2020
BBC
Features Bonnie Kaiser, MPH, PhD
5/25/2020
New York Times
Features Marlene Millen, MD, and William Sieber, PhD
5/14/2020
Medium
Features Emily Troyer, MD, Jordan Kohn, PhD, and Suzi Hong, PhD
5/11/2020
U.S. News & World Report
Features Judy Davidson, DNP, RN
5/11/2020
New York Times
Features Dilip Jeste, MD
5/11/2020
School Library Journal
Features Kristen Jezior, PhD
5/5/2020
Science Blog
Features Raeanne Moore, PhD
5/5/2020
With website, UC San Diego School of Medicine scientists will monitor health and well-being during and after pandemic.
5/4/2020
Baltimore Sun
Features Dilip Jeste, MD
5/4/2020
FreeThink
Features Raeanne Moore, PhD
4/29/2020
For San Diegans struggling with hoarding disorder, one-of-a-kind CREST clinic provides hope; COVID-19 puts it at risk.
4/28/2020
The Medical News
Features Olivier George, PhD
4/28/2020
Times of San Diego
Authored by Suzie Hong, PhD
4/27/2020
Antibiotic treatment — which depletes gut microbes — drastically changes the parts of a rat’s brain that are activated during opioid addiction and withdrawal.
4/22/2020
Time
Features Walter Kaye, MD
4/20/2020
Science
Features Walter Kaye, MD
4/20/2020
The Hospitalist
Features Katherine Nguyen Williams, PhD
4/20/2020
San Diego Union Tribune
Authored by David Folsom, MD, and William Perry, PhD
4/20/2020
KPBS
Features Suzi Hong, PhD, and Emily Troyer, MD
4/14/2020
Neuroscience News
Features Suzi Hong, PhD, Emily Troyer, MD, and Jordan Kohn, PhD
4/14/2020
Researchers suggest that in the aftermath of the novel coronavirus pandemic, a host of neuropsychiatric challenges may remain — or emerge — for those recovering from COVID-19 infections.
4/6/2020
Psychology Today
Authored by Katherine Nguyen Williams, PhD
4/6/2020
10News
Features David Folsom, MD
4/6/2020
San Diego Tribune
Features Dilip Jeste, MD
4/6/2020
Voice of San Diego
Features Katherine Nguyen Williams, PhD
4/6/2020
San Diego Union Tribune
Features Dilip Jeste, MD
4/6/2020
KPBS
Features Dilip Jeste, MD
3/12/2020
Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have discovered differences in brain circuitry that contribute to starvation and weight loss in people with anorexia nervosa.
3/9/2020
Health-24
Features Judy Davidson, DNP, RN, and Sidney Zisook, MD
3/9/2020
U.S. News & World Report
Features Sarah Banks, PhD, and Erin Sundermann, PhD
3/2/2020
U.S. News & World Report
Features Gabriel Schnickel, MD, MPH
2/27/2020
ABC Cleveland
Features Elise Phelan, RN, and Judy Davidson, DNP, RN
2/26/2020
U.S. News & World Report
Features Jeffrey Shih, MD
2/25/2020
U.S. News & World Report
Features Gabriel Schnickel, MD, MPH
2/17/2020
ScienceDaily
Features Jeremy Elman, PhD, and William Kremen, PhD
2/17/2020
Medpage Today
Features Judy Davidson, RN, DNP, and Rachael Accardi, LMFT
2/17/2020
Medpage Today
Features Rachael Accardi, LMFT, and Judy Davidson, RN, DNP
2/17/2020
The Medical News
Features Jonathan Sebat, PhD, Danny Antaki, postdoctoral scholar, Joseph Gleeson, MD, and Martin Breuss, project scientist
2/13/2020
Next Avenue
Features Dilip Jeste, MD
2/13/2020
A novel research study by UC San Diego researchers will determine whether testing stored blood drops, recorded at birth, for 1,000 different molecules and chemicals can help predict autism risk years ...
2/10/2020
NBC
Features Raphael Cuomo, PhD
2/10/2020
Medium
Features Tiffany Brown, PhD
2/5/2020
The Medical News
Features Dilip Jeste, MD, and Danielle Glorioso, LCSW
2/5/2020
Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, in collaboration with Mather Institute, developed a method to enhance resilience and reduce subjective stress in residents living ...
2/4/2020
Becker's Hospital Review
Features Judy Davidson, DNP, RN, Sidney Zisook, MD, and Rachael Accardi, LMFT, HEAR therapist
2/4/2020
U.S. News & World Report
Features John Ayers, PhD, and Alicia Nobles, PhD
2/3/2020
In the first national study of its size, researchers at UC San Diego have found that nurses are at higher risk of suicide than the general population. Results were published in the February edition of ...
1/14/2020
Using novel imaging technologies, researchers produce first whole-brain atlas at single-cell resolution, revealing how alcohol addiction and abstinence remodel neural physiology and function in mice.
1/10/2020
Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine found the main characteristics of loneliness in a senior housing community and the strategies residents use to overcome it.
12/10/2019
A recent study by researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine found that the presence of and search for meaning in life are important for health and well-being, though the rel ...
12/2/2019
UC San Diego Health is the first hospital in San Diego to join the Age-Friendly Health Systems initiative and be recognized as Committed to Care Excellence by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement ...
10/10/2019
The Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research at University of California San Diego School of Medicine announces $3 million in research grants to explore new applications of cannabis for a number of nove ...
10/8/2019
In the largest and most diverse genetic study of PTSD to date, scientists from UC San Diego School of Medicine and more than 130 institutions in the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium found that genetics ...
8/29/2019
Diets that begin as tools for better health can turn into something more worrying: namely, disordered eating. We ask a UC San Diego Eating Disorders Center expert what behaviors to pay attention to an ...
8/9/2019
Breaking news headlines about school shootings and other tragic events have become a gut-wrenching reality. With news now easily accessible on a variety of platforms, a team of experts provides tips t ...
4/29/2019
Serious physical challenges like illness or injury can affect mental health. UC San Diego Health experts say treating both can speed recovery. But coping is an art that takes different forms for each ...
4/3/2019
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Department of Psychiatry at UC San Diego School of Medicine, and from the beginning, it’s been a different sort of place.
12/13/2018
For some patient demographics, such as teens, mothers and seniors, the holiday may conjure psychiatric issues and symptoms that physicians will need to look out for.
11/6/2018
Our experts answer your questions on everything from headaches to tummy aches. This month, our experts discuss anxiety around the holidays, manicures and melanoma and a prime pooping position.
10/30/2018
Cannabis or its derivatives can be found in everything from smoothies to purported medicines. Experts at UC San Diego School of Medicine’s Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research answer some burning qu ...
5/4/2018
Sidney Zisook, MD, a psychiatrist at UC San Diego Health and professor of psychiatry at UC San Diego School of Medicine, talks about different types of depression as well as available treatment option ...
12/21/2017
Ketamine, a medication originally developed as an anesthetic drug, is now being used to address treatment-resistant depression.
12/20/2017
Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have discovered differences in how the brain responds to food rewards in individuals with a history of bulimia nervosa and anorexia ...
12/22/2016
This month UC San Diego Health experts discuss the HPV vaccine for boys, effective treatments for opioid addiction and when surgery is required for a hernia.
12/20/2016
Forgetfulness is a part of life, a natural consequence of aging. Alzheimer's disease is not. Learn more and sign up for a free memory screening.
10/27/2016
Selective seratonin reuptake inhibitors are a popular and effective treatment for depression and anxiety disorders but they must be taken with caution.
6/30/2016
Christine Frey (left) found help for her diagnosis of early psychosis with Kristin Cadenhead, MD, director of the Cognitive Assessment and Risk Evaluation Program.
2/26/2016
Some foods can naturally make us feel better – foods that boost serotonin levels in our brains, which can help smooth out emotional highs and lows. So dig into these recipes with a smile.
2/24/2016
In this month’s Corner Clinic, our experts tackle adult ADHD, if and when to take the car keys away from elderly drivers and which post-workout recovery drinks work best.
2/23/2016
Some symptoms of stress and anxiety are obvious but others not so much. Here’s an abbreviated list of 15 common (but perhaps less recognized) signs of chronic stress and anxiety.
2/23/2016
A man has up to a 50 percent chance of battling postpartum depression if his wife is going through it. The Reproductive Mental Health Program treats moms and dads facing this condition with therapy an ...
1/5/2016
This month we ask our experts how to keep New Year’s resolutions, how to tell a cold from allergies and whether exercises for your eyes can improve or protect vision.
1/4/2016
Men and women experience hormonal changes during middle age that can affect their sexual health and relationships with partners. UC San Diego Health experts discuss what both genders can do to ensure ...
11/2/2015
The first FDA-approved medication to treat sexual dysfunction in women became available in late-October. Board-certified psychiatrist Ildiko Kovacs discusses the controversial drug.
7/2/2015
A clinical trial at UC San Diego Health is testing whether adjusting light exposure and sleep times may be an effective treatment for women with depression related to chronic disruption of their sleep ...
6/26/2015
Many people have trouble organizing the daily accumulated clutter of life. But a paralyzing inability to throw away unnecessary possessions can belie a potentially debilitating mental condition known ...
3/3/2015
Prescription medications are designed to remedy a diagnosed illness or condition but a side effect of many can be unwanted weight gain, adding pounds and problems. Learn more about drugs that can sabo ...
11/10/2014
A Q&A with our expert on aging on how older persons can cope with psychological issues arising during holiday season.
8/27/2014
Should I take a daily aspirin to reduce my risk of heart attack? How do I help my elderly parents avoid falling? What is emotional eating? Our experts answer your health questions in this month’s Corn ...
6/25/2014
In this month's Corner Clinic, UC San Diego Health System experts answer questions about the best way to breathe, the healthiest way to grill, and how to treat burns.