UCSF Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

02/26/2026

📅 Save the Date | April 1, 2026

Join us for the 20th Robert S. Wallerstein Lecture in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy hosted by the University of California, San Francisco.

This annual lectureship honors the legacy of Robert S. Wallerstein, MD, and highlights psychoanalytic scholarship and clinical expertise shaping psychiatry, psychotherapy, and psychoanalysis today.

Keynote Lecture: “Clinical Listening as Civic Practice”
Delivered by this year’s honoree, Kimberlyn Leary, PhD, MPA

🗓 Wednesday, April 1, 2026
⏰ 1:00–4:00 p.m. PDT
📍 UCSF Nancy Friend Pritzker Psychiatry Building
💻 Live streamed via Zoom

Following the keynote: discussion + audience Q&A.

✨ Free and open to the public (geared toward professionals)

🔗 Registration required, https://psych.ucsf.edu/wallerstein.

02/25/2026

Join us on March 3rd at 8:30am for the DPBS Trainee Research Award Presentations, featuring Megan E. Mikhail, PhD and Simar Singh, PhD.

To access the Zoom livestream, visit psychiatry.ucsf.edu/watchgrandrounds

02/21/2026

We remember Joanne R. Wile, MSW, LCSW (1945–2025), longtime UCSF clinical professor and mental health advocate, who passed away June 4, 2025 at 79. Over 27 years at UCSF and San Francisco General Hospital, she led social work training and psychiatric services with energy, clarity, and compassion. A celebration of life will be held tomorrow, Feb. 21 at Unitarian Universalist Church of Berkeley.

More on Joanne's legacy click here, https://psychiatry.ucsf.edu/news/memoriam-joanne-r-wile-msw-lcsw.

01/16/2026

Following several AI-related delusion diagnoses since June, UCSF will soon implement routine screening for chatbot use to see if the researchers can make any connections.

Psychiatrists plan to screen patients for chatbot use.

01/15/2026

In a joint effort, UCSF and Stanford plan to invite patients to voluntarily share chatbot logs to explore potential links between chatbot conversations and mental-health conditions or symptom changes.

Psychiatrists plan to screen patients for chatbot use.

01/12/2026

UCSF and Stanford researchers are preparing a systematic study on how patients interact with AI chatbots, aiming to better understand the technology’s role in mental health care.

More information here, https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/technology/with-delusions-rising-ucsf-to-study-ai-mental-health-link/article_20bebebe-86a0-4f18-802e-6aa8976e91df.html.

Psychiatrists plan to screen patients for chatbot use.

12/10/2025

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UCSF DPBS – "Targeting Threat and Reward Processing in the Treatment of Anxiety and Depression" with Michelle G. Craske, PhD.

To access the Zoom livestream, visit psychiatry.ucsf.edu/watchgrandrounds.

12/09/2025

Join us tomorrow, Dec. 10, for our next DPBS – "Targeting Threat and Reward Processing in the Treatment of Anxiety and Depression" – featuring Michelle G. Craske, PhD.

More information, https://calendar.ucsf.edu/event/251210gr.

12/09/2025

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UCSF DPBS – "Neuroscience and Mental Health: Past, Present, and Future" with Joshua A. Gordon, MD, PhD.

To access the Zoom livestream, visit psychiatry.ucsf.edu/watchgrandrounds.

12/08/2025

Join us tomorrow, Dec 9 at 8:30am for our next – "Neuroscience and Mental Health: Past, Present, and Future" with Joshua A. Gordon, MD, PhD.

Pritzker Bldg. Auditorium and online via Zoom.

More info here, https://calendar.ucsf.edu/event/251209gr

12/05/2025

Researchers just released the most detailed maps yet of how the brain differentiate from stem cells. In five new Nature papers, researchers tracked hundreds of thousands of early brain cells, revealing the precise molecular steps that create our neurons and support cells.

A collection of studies that chart how mammalian brain cells grow and differentiate is a ‘very valuable’ tool for neuroscientists.

12/05/2025

Readings: Sleep and circadian rhythms in cardiovascular resilience: mechanisms, implications, and a Roadmap for research and interventions

In this Roadmap, Aggarwal and colleagues summarize current research and knowledge gaps on the relationship between sleep, circadian rhythms and cardiovascular resilience; highlight potential therapeutic targets and interventions for optimizing sleep and circadian rhythms to improve cardiovascular fu...