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New Workshop Helps Doctors Avoid Burnout, Increase Wellbeing

March 1, 2013

On Saturday, May 11, the Center for Mindfulness at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine is hosting a workshop to help physicians and clinicians increase job satisfaction and prevent burnout. The program will show participants how to incorporate the concept of mindfulness into their daily clinical practice with…

Students Challenged to Look Deeper

June 20, 2019

…with her mother’s severe mental illness exposed her to the perils, stigma and ambiguity that accompany misunderstandings about mental health. The personal experience with her mother’s illness, and sudden death, made her grateful for the support of her fellow students. “I stand before some of the most incredible and inspiring…

Solution to Helping Teens with Chronic Disease May be at Fingertips

May 19, 2014

…1 diabetes, often find the transition of managing their health care needs into adulthood to be challenging. A new study by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine found the answer to developing independent, self-management skills in ACD could be right at the patient’s fingertips.

The Brain’s “Inner GPS” Gets Dismantled

November 10, 2014

Imagine being able to recognize your car as your own but never being able to remember where you parked it. Researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have induced this all-too-common human experience permanently in rats and from what is observed perhaps derive clues about why strokes…

Autism Diagnoses Prove Highly Stable as Early as 14 Months

April 29, 2019

Diagnoses of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) by trained professionals in children as young as 14 months are remarkably stable, suggesting that accurate screening and earlier treatment is feasible, report scientists at University of California San Diego School of Medicine.

How Your Brain Remembers What You Had for Dinner Last Night

January 17, 2018

Confirming earlier computational models, researchers at University of California San Diego and UC San Diego School of Medicine, with colleagues in Arizona and Louisiana, report that episodic memories are encoded in the hippocampus of the human brain by distinct, sparse sets of neurons.

Polygenic Risk Score May Identify Alzheimer’s Risk in Younger Populations

March 5, 2018

For the first time, an international team of scientists, led by researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, have determined that an Alzheimer’s disease (AD) polygenic risk score can be used to correctly identify adults with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) who were only in their 50s. MCI…

Igor Grant Named Chair of UC San Diego Department of Psychiatry

April 22, 2014

Igor Grant, MD, FRCP(C), an internationally recognized neuropsychiatrist, whose research interests have ranged from the neurobiology of HIV/AIDS and substance abuse, psychobiology of stress, to the therapeutic potential of medicinal cannabis, has been named the new Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego School…

Researchers Create Novel Device to Measure Nerve Activity for Treatment of Sepsis, PTSD

November 14, 2022

A multi-campus research team has developed a novel device for non-invasively measuring cervical nerve activity in humans. The device, described in an article in Scientific Reports, has potential applications for supporting more personalized treatments for sepsis and PTSD.

Protein Subunit Found to Rescue Afflicted Neurons in Huntington’s Disease

September 5, 2016

Using an experimental co-culture approach in which two different types of neurons from a mouse model of Huntington’s disease (HD) are grown side-by-side, connecting to form critically impacted circuits, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have identified a subunit of a protein that, when expressed, reverse…

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