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14 Expert-Backed Ways to Improve Your Mental Health Every Day

7/8/2020

Best Life

Features Mounir Soliman, MD, and Tahir Bhatti, MD

Moral Injury Stems Beyond the Lack of PPE -- The Mental Health Fallout

6/29/2020

Medscape

Features Christine Moutier, MD

Screening Older Doctors: Good Sense, or Discrimination?

6/29/2020

Medscape

Features William Perry, PhD, and David Bazzo, MD

The way these older amateur athletes are staying fit despite the pandemic offers lessons for all ages

6/25/2020

The Washington Post

Features Dilip Jeste, MD

Longitudinal Study of Brain Aging and Cognitive Change Receives $19 Million Grant

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 ...

How are You Doing? Researchers Hope to Measure Well-Being at Global Scale

5/5/2020

With website, UC San Diego School of Medicine scientists will monitor health and well-being during and after pandemic.

Gut Microbes Influence How Rat Brains React to Opioids

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.

In Wake of COVID-19 Pandemic, a Crashing Wave of Neuropsychiatric Problems?

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.

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Recent Announcements & Recognitions

Dr. Dilip Jeste has been invited by the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP) to give its annual Distinguished Lecture at the annual conference in Phoenix on December 7, 2020, on the topic of “Neuroscience of Wisdom in the Era of the New Pandemics.” We congratulate him on this prestigious invitation.

Alana Iglewicz’s article on Treatment of Grief was noted as one of the top 10% downloaded papers of the year and “one of the top downloaded in recent publication history!”. Complicated grief therapy for clinicians: An evidence‐based protocol for mental health practice, It also was referenced in the hot off the press just approved APA resource docs.

Congratulations to Mariana Cherner, she has been elected as Divisional Representative to systemwide Assembly! This is well-deserved and we know she will represent UCSD most capably.

Congratulations to PG2 Residents Al Cesarz and Becky Sturner on the acceptance of their submission "El No Es Mi Padre": A Discussion of the Practical and Ethical Dilemmas in the Case of a Psychotic Immigrant Teen, as a Clinical Case Conference presentation at AACAP's 67th Annual Meeting.

Dr. Morrison Steel has been recognized by third year medical students to receive the UC San Diego SOM Humanism in Medicine Resident Award in Psychiatry. With this award, he is invited to join UC San Diego School of Medicine’s Chapter of the Gold Humanism Honor Society (GHHS) and be recognized at the Student Clinicians Ceremony.

Congratulations, Jyoti Mishra, Steve Koh, and all involved in this innovative proposal to help develop an app to support the COVID emotional support work From Rapid Response GEM COVID-19 proposal! It’s an excellent example of the way clinical services, research, and education can come together in an integrated fashion.

Laura Earp, R.N. Congratulations to Laura Earp BSN, RN who won Nurse Leader of the Year in Transformational Leadership for her leadership in our transformation!

Dr. Ariel Lang Congratulations to Dr. Ariel J. Lang for being selected to serve as the Director of the VA Center of Excellence for Stress and Mental Health (CESAMH) in San Diego!

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