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Targeted Cognitive Training Benefits Patients with Severe Schizophrenia

12/6/2018

Researchers find that patients with severe, refractory schizophrenia benefit from targeted cognitive therapy, improving auditory and verbal outcomes and the way they process information.

U.S. doctors asked how they feel about caring for transgender patients

12/3/2018

Reuters

Features John Ayers, PhD

Mother's depression might do the same to her child's IQ

12/3/2018

Newsday

Features Patricia East, PhD

A 'party drug' with potential to be the next blockbuster antidepressant is edging closer to the mainstream, but it could set you back $9,000

12/3/2018

SF Gate

Features UC San Diego School of Medicine

What happens to our brains as we age

12/3/2018

San Diego Jewish World

Features Dilip Jeste, MD

UC San Diego Health Among First in Nation to Receive CHQI Telemedicine Accreditation

11/16/2018

UC San Diego Health is proud to announce it has earned ClearHealth Quality Institute (CHQI) accreditation for telemedicine. CHQI is an independent health care accrediting body that offers the only tel ...

Researchers to Study Binge Eating Disorder Treatment in Veterans

10/29/2018

For the first time, the United States Department of Defense (DOD) has awarded a grant to researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine to study binge eating disorder treatments ...

Study to Examine Possible Effects of Cannabis Compound for Common Movement Disorder

9/18/2018

Researchers at University of California School of Medicine are preparing to launch a novel clinical trial to examine the safety, efficacy and pharmacological properties of cannabis as a potential trea ...

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Recent Announcements & Recognitions

Maddie Werhane Congratulations to Maddi Werhane on receiving the SDSU Inamori Fellowship! Maddi is a 4th year student in the SDSU/UCSD Joint Doctoral Program mentored by Dr. Lisa Delano-Wood.

Lee Ellen Congratulations to Ellen Lee, MD, a T32 Geriatric Research Fellow, on being chosen to receive the 2019 American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry's Member-in-Training Research Award AND for receiving the 2018 Chancellor's Postdoctoral Scholar Award!

Congratulations to Stephanie Wells, a Joint Doctoral Program student, for receiving the 2018 Outstanding Student Achievement Award from the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS)!

Congratulations to Psychiatry faculty: Jessica Bomyea, PhD, Yuliana Gallegos-Rodriguez, PhD, and Tamara Maginot, PhD who were selected to participate in the UC San Diego Hispanic Center of Excellence (HCOE) Faculty Scholars Program!

We are saddened to inform you of the passing of our colleague and friend, Alvaro Camacho, MD, in Imperial County. Read More...

Igor Grant, MD Dr. Igor Grant gives his “State of the Department” address at the Psychiatry General Faculty meeting on Tuesday, September 11, 2018.
Watch his full presentation...

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