UCSF Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
The UCSF Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences is among the nation's foremost resources in the fields of child, adolescent, adult, and geriatric mental health.
Our faculty members are recognized for their leadership roles in state-of-the-art, comprehensive and compassionate patient care, pioneering research, excellence in training the next generation of leaders, advancing public policy to advance mental health, and commitment to diversity. Our programs are active at a number of sites in and around San Francisco, including the Nancy Friend Pritzker Psychiatry Building; Langley Porter Psychiatric Hospital; UCSF Medical Centers at Parnassus Heights, Mission Bay, and Mt. Zion; UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals in Oakland and San Francisco; Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center; the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Health Care System and UCSF Fresno.
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Targeting Threat and Reward Processing in the Treatment of Anxiety and Depression
Positive Psychiatry: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
A Developmental Science Perspective on Anxiety, Depression, and Loneliness in Adolescence
Caring in Tandem: Building Sustainable Dyadic Care in Pediatric Primary Settings
3rd Nancy Adler Annual Lecture
The Metabolic Cost of Craving: Bridging Mechanisms, Clinical Intervention, and Public Health
Biomarker-Guided Neuromodulation for Psychiatric Disorders
2025 Evelyn Lee Visiting Scholar Lecture
The Business of Mental Health and Its Abandonment of the Mentally Ill
Managing Therapy-Interfering Behavior
Innovations to Improve Access to and Quality of Mental Health Interventions
Making the Leap: Translating Autism Genetics into Patient-Relevant Insights Using Frog Models
2025 Graduation Commencement
Implementing Dyadic Care in Pediatrics
Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Children: Addressing Complex Trauma in Children and Adults
Inflammation and the Brain: Good, Bad, or an Opportunityfor New Therapies?
Unintentional Fentanyl Use: Prevalence, Pathways, and Prevention
Breath, Movement, and Mind: A Yoga-Based Approach to Adolescent Stress Resilience
Probing and Rescuing Dysfunctional Brain Circuits in Depression
The California Child and Adolescent Mental Health Access Portal (Cal-MAP)
The Current State of Mental Health Technology and AI
2025 Wallerstein Lecture
Cardiovascular Health, Multimorbidity, and Cognition
Sleep and Cognitive Aging: An Epidemiological Approach
Eating Disorders in Transgender and Gender Diverse Youth
Helping Families Help Themselves
Translational Strategies for Understanding Neural Circuitry Dysfunction in Schizophrenia
Advancing Mental Health Services in the Education Sector Through Implementation Science
Advancing Health Requires an Intergenerational Lens