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Nightclub shooting illustrates reluctance among veterans to seek mental health help

11/8/2018

San Diego Union Tribune

Features Sonya Noman, PhD

AHA: Meth Use Producing Younger, Harder-to-Treat Heart Failure Patients

11/6/2018

HealthDay

Features Isac Thomas, MD, MPH

Naloxone still stable months after expiration date, research says

11/6/2018

CNN

Features Lee Cantrell, PharmD

DOD, VA & UCSD Study New Treatment For Binge Eating

10/30/2018

Military.com

Features Kerri Boutelle, PhD

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 ...

HIV and a Tale of a Few Cities

8/17/2018

Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, with international colleagues, examined how policy reform in terms of drug decriminalization (in Mexico) and access to drug treatm ...

Practice Imperfect: Repeated Cognitive Testing Can Obscure Early Signs of Dementia

7/11/2018

Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive, neurodegenerative condition that often begins with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), making early and repeated assessments of cognitive change crucial to diagnosis ...

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Recent Announcements & Recognitions

Congratulations to Ellen Lee, MD on being chosen to receive the 2019 American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry's Member-in-Training Research Award!

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.
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Congrats to Samantha Friend, MD, PhD, a 4th year Research Track Resident, for being selected as a 2018-19 NNCI Scholar! NNCI is the National Neuroscience Curriculum Initiative; its goal is to help train psychiatrists to integrate a modern neuroscience perspective into every facet of their clinical work. Samantha will contribute to their efforts as an NNCI Scholar, and attend the 2019 NIMH/AADPRT BRAIN Conference.

Congratulations to Psychiatry Department students and faculty who received Research and Early Career Awards from the American Psychological Association's Division 40 - Society for Clinical Neuropsychology!Read More...

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