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OK Boomer, MD: 4 steps to better communication across generations

1/19/23

American Medial Association

Features: Andres Schneeberger, MD

Glennon Doyle revealed she has anorexia after believing she was bulimic. An eating disorder expert said a shift in diagnosis is actually common.

1/10/23

Insider

Features: Kimberly Claudat, PhD

How our brains cope with speaking more than one language

7/19/2022

BBC

Features Tomar Gollan, PhD

Veterans say renowned rehab program is now a minefield of drug abuse

6/8/2022

inewsource

Features Carla Marienfeld, MD

2/28/2022

Psychiatry Times

Features Zafiris Daskalakis, MD, PhD

2/28/2022

Forbes

Features Emily Treichler, PhD, and Dilip Jeste, MD

2/23/2022

Science Blog

Features Zafiris Daskalakis, MD, PhD

2/22/2022

Time

Features Sonya Norman, PhD

2/22/2022

2/21/2022

Inverse

Features Imanuel Lerman, MD

2/9/2022

Science Blog

Features Ben McKenna, PhD, and Marc Schuckit, MD

2/7/2022

ScienceDaily

Features Dilip Jeste, MD, and Emily Treichler, PhD

2/7/2022

Washington Post

Cites research by Judy Davidson, DNP, RN, and Sidney Zisook, MD

2/7/2022

San Diego 7

Features Mark Wallace, MD, and Thomas Marcotte, PhD

2/2/2022

Consumer Affairs

Features Raeanne Moore, PhD, and Zvinka Zlatar, PhD

2/1/2022

Associated Press

Features Mark Wallace, MD, and Thomas Marcotte, PhD

2/1/2022

Cosmopolitan

Features Elizabeth Eikey, PhD

2/1/2022

Medical News Today

Features Ian Neel, MD

2/1/2022

1/31/2022

New York Post

Features Thomas Marcotte, PhD, Robert Fitzgerald, PhD, and Igor Grant, MD

1/31/2022

El Latino San Diego

Features Zafiris Daskalakis, MD, PhD

1/27/2022

Medical Xpress

Features Jeff Daskalakis, MD, PhD

1/26/2022

Healthline

Features Thomas Marcotte, PhD, Robert Fitzgerald, PhD, and Igor Grant, MD

1/26/2022

1/10/2022

Psychology Today

Cites research by Ruben Abagyan, PhD

1/3/2022

TheHill

Features Ruben Abagyan, PhD, and Tigran Makunts, PharmD

1/3/2022

Star Tribune

Features Michael Criqui, MD (Emeritus)

1/3/2022

Medpage Today

Cites research by Judy Davidson, DNP, RN

1/3/2022

HealthLeaders Magazine

Features Judy Davidson, DNP, RN

12/21/2021

12/17/2021

Well + Good

Features Dilip Jeste, MD

12/16/2021

NPR

Features Wael Al-Delaimy, MD, PhD

12/9/2021

Consumer Reports

Features Michael Criqui, MD, MPH (Emeritus)

12/8/2021

UPI

Features Tala Al Rousan, MD, MPH

12/7/2021

NBC News

Features Timothy Mackey, PhD

12/6/2021

Insider

Features Dilip Jeste, MD

Researchers report that an abbreviated, seven-item scale can help determine with high validity a person’s level of wisdom, a potentially modifiable personality trait that has been shown to have a stro ...

11/29/2021

CBS Sunday Morning

Features Dilip Jeste, MD

11/15/2021

London Free Press

Features John Pierce, PhD

11/9/2021

New York Times

Features Fadel Zeidan, PhD

11/3/2021

Los Angeles Times

Features Doris Trauner, MD, Thomas Marcotte, PhD, and Igor Grant, MD

11/2/2021

DailyNurse.com

Features Judy Davidson, DNP, RN

11/1/2021

MedPage Today

Authored by John Pierce, PhD

10/27/2021

The Washington Post

Features Jyoti Mishra, PhD

10/26/2021

San Diego Union Tribune

Authored by Willough Jenkins, MD

10/25/2021

ScienceDaily

Features Zafiris Daskalakis, MD, PhD

10/25/2021

SciTech Daily

Features John Pierce, PhD, and Karen Messer, PhD

10/20/2021

10/19/2021

UPI

Features John Pierce, PhD

10/19/2021

10News

Features Desiree Shapiro, MD

10/18/2021

TODAY

Features Tamara Goldsby, PhD

10/14/2021

10/11/2021

Travel + Leisure

Features Dilip Jeste, MD

10/11/2021

Healio

Features David Inwards-Breland, MD, MPH

10/11/2021

Express UK

Features Dilip Jeste, MD

10/4/2021

Psychology Today

Features UC San Diego School of Medicine

10/4/2021

Business Insider

Features Ellen Lee, MD

10/4/2021

NOVA

Features Doris Trauner, MD, and Alysson Muotri, PhD

10/4/2021

Patch

Features UC San Diego Health

Features Olivier George, PhD

9/28/2021 The Washington Post

Features Timothy Mackey, PhD

9/27/2021 La Jolla Light

Features Desiree Shapiro, MD, and Heidi Banh, third year med student

9/27/2021 Researchers describe how withdrawal from nicotine, methamphetamine and cocaine alters the functional architecture and patterns in the brains of mice, compared to control animals, a key to developing a ...

9/21/2021 San Diego Union Tribune

Features UC San Diego Eating Disorders Center for Treatment and Research

9/13/2021 NBC News

Features Timothy Mackey, PhD

9/13/2021 CBS Greenbay

Features Catherine Ayers, PhD

9/13/2021 Pyschology Today

Authored by Dilip Jeste, MD, and Blaire Ehret, PhD

8/31/2021 Times of San Diego

Features Yuyan Shi, PhD

8/30/2021 Science Blog

Features Abraham Palmer, PhD, and Sandra Sanchez-Roige, PhD

8/30/2021 San Diego Union Tribune

Features Peter Davidson, PhD

8/26/2021 Researchers identified 579 locations in the human genome associated with a predisposition to self-regulation-related behaviors, such as addiction. With data from 1.5 million people of European descent ...

8/25/2021 Stem cell models derived from people with specific genomic variation recapitulate aspects of their autism spectrum disorder, providing a valuable model to study the condition and look for therapeutic ...

8/24/2021 U.S. News & World Report

Features William Pelham III, PhD, postdoc scholar

8/18/2021 Times of San Diego

Features Sandra Brown, PhD, vice chancellor, research, Carla Marienfeld, MD, and cites research by Carol Yan, MD, and Stephen Spector, MD ...

8/16/2021 Ottawa Citizen

Features Martin Paulus, MD

8/16/2021 Reuters

Features Natalie Laub, MD

8/16/2021 10News

Features Leo Beletsky, JD, MPH

8/16/2021 KPBS

Features Carla Marienfeld, MD

8/11/2021 U.S. News & World Report

Features Jyoti Mishra, PhD

8/9/2021 NBC News

Features Leo Beletsky, JD, MPH

8/9/2021 Wall Street Journal

Authored by Joel Dimsdale, MD (Emeritus)

8/9/2021 Pychology Today

Authored by Tamara Goldsby, PhD

8/9/2021 Healio

Features Maja Marinkovic, MD

8/9/2021 KPBS

Features Carla Marienfeld, MD

8/9/2021 La Jolla Light

Features Marsida Kallupi, PhD, PharmD, and Olivier George, PhD

8/5/2021 New York Times

Features Dilip Jeste, MD

8/2/2021 The Washington Post

Features Robert Heaton, PhD

8/2/2021 Wired

Features Fadel Zeidan, PhD

7/26/2021 Popular Science

Features Carla Marienfeld, MD

7/26/2021 San Diego Union Tribune

Features Brent Mausbach, PhD

7/7/2021 KPBS

Features Carla Marienfeld, MD

7/5/2021 Medical News Today

Features Walter Kaye, MD

6/30/2021 Verywell Health

Features Jyoti Mishra, PhD

6/30/2021 The Ladders

Features Dilip Jeste, MD

6/29/2021 Neuroscience News

Features Michael Taffe, PhD

6/29/2021 Researchers expose live lobsters to vaporized cannabis and confirm the crustaceans absorb THC. Whether the psychoactive compound affects behavior remains open question.

6/28/2021 NPR

Features Center for Mindfulness

6/28/2021 La Jolla Light

Features Doris Trauner, MD

6/21/2021 Business Insider

Features Katherine Williams, PhD

6/17/2021 Medium

Features Jyoti Mishra, PhD

6/16/2021 Times Now

Features Dilip Jeste, MD

6/14/2021 Forbes

Features Annick Borquez, PhD, and Charlie Marks, MPH, graduate research assistant

6/10/2021 GQ

Features Timothy Furnish, MD

6/10/2021 Researchers at UC San Diego, San Diego State University, and international collaborators have designed and validated a prediction model to signal counties at risk of future overdose death outbreaks.

6/9/2021 Medical Xpress

Features Jyoti Mishra, PhD

6/8/2021 Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine used a combination of modalities, such as measuring brain function, cognition and lifestyle factors, to generate individualized pre ...

6/7/2021 U.S. News & World Report

Features Benjamin Han, PhD

6/7/2021 Medscape

Features Yash Joshi, MD

6/7/2021 Los Angeles Times

Features Peter Davidson, PhD

6/3/2021 10News

Features Nathaniel Schuster, MD

6/3/2021 The T. Denny Sanford Institute for Empathy and Compassion has opened its newest center, focused on addressing issues of social justice in health care.

5/31/2021 Health News Digest

Features Anne Cusack, PsyD

5/31/2021 NPR

Features Igor Grant, MD

5/31/2021 Business Insider

Features Katherine Nguyen Williams, PhD

5/31/2021 U.S. News & World Report

Features Murray Stein MD, MPH

5/26/2021 Technology.org

Features Benjamin Han, MD

5/20/2021 The Medical News

Features Nathaniel Schuster, MD

5/20/2021 Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine found that functional impairments among adults aged 50 and older are associated with a higher risk of medical cannabis use; and pre ...

5/19/2021 UC San Diego Health is conducting the first known randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial looking at cannabis as a potentially effective treatment for acute migraines.

5/18/2021 Medical Xpress

Features Yash Joshi, MD, and Gregory Light, PhD

5/17/2021 Science

Features Igor Grant, MD

5/17/2021 UC San Diego researchers report that medications commonly prescribed to reduce the severity of physical and mental health symptoms associated with schizophrenia may have a cumulative effect of worseni ...

5/13/2021 KPBS

Features Anita Raj, PhD, and Nicole Johns, research data analyst

5/6/2021 UC San Diego researchers report that one kind of perceptual learning can occur in memory-impaired persons who do not actually remember what they learned.

5/3/2021 Medscape

Features Mark Wallace, MD

4/28/2021 New York Times

Features Walter Kaye, MD

4/26/2021 The Medical News

Features Olivier George, PhD

4/26/2021 NBC News

Features Yuyan Shi, PhD

4/26/2021 San Diego Union Tribune

Features Dilip Jeste, MD

4/26/2021 San Diego Union Tribune

Authored by Wael Al-Delaimy, MD, PhD

4/26/2021 Researchers have created to novel biobanks of diverse tissues from animals to further explore the biological bases and consequences of addiction to cocaine and oxycodone.

4/23/2021 New York Times

Features Peter Davidson, PhD

4/22/2021 Babies born to mothers diagnosed with cannabis use disorder are more likely to experience negative health outcomes, such as preterm birth and low birth weight, than babies born to mothers without a ca ...

4/20/2021 U.S. News & World Report

Features Isac Thomas, MD, MPH

4/14/2021 Medpage Today

Features Judy Davidson, DNP, RN

4/14/2021 The UC San Diego Autism Center for Excellence has received a $1.5 million gift from Kristin Farmer, founder and chief executive officer of ACES, a company that provides services to children with autis ...

4/12/2021 KUSI

Features Lucy Horton, MD

4/5/2021 Reader's Digest

Features Dilip Jeste, MD

3/29/2021 Interesting Engineering

Features Tanya Nguyen, PhD, and Dilip Jeste, MD

3/25/2021 UC San Diego School of Medicine researchers report that opioid users who participated in a 12-step abstinence program and recently stopped using drugs refused to take home naloxone, even if having it ...

3/25/2021 UC San Diego scientists have taken the connection between wisdom, loneliness and biology one step further, reporting that wisdom and loneliness appear to influence - and/or be influenced by - microbia ...

3/24/2021 Seattle Times

Features Dilip Jeste, MD

3/22/2021 New York Times

Features Benjamin Han, MD, MPH

3/22/2021 The Carlat Report

Features Aaron Besterman, MD

3/22/2021 Medscape

Features Niraj Asthana, MD, resident physician, and Daniel Sewell, MD

3/10/2021 Medpage Today

Features Dilip Jeste, MD

3/9/2021 GEN

Features Jyoti Mishra, PhD, and Dilip Jeste, MD

3/8/2021 AARP News

Features Dilip Jeste, MD

12/17/2020 Researchers report that hearing loss and high blood sugar are associated with poor cognitive performance among middle-aged and older Latinos.

12/16/2020 The Science Times

Features Laura Crotty Alexander, MD

12/15/2020 Insider

Features Meredith Pung, PhD

12/14/2020 Psychology Today

Authored by Tamara Goldsby, PhD

12/14/2020 UC San Diego researchers report chemicals used for flavor in e-cigarette liquid negatively affect specialized proteins that support immune system.

12/10/2020 Medical Xpress

Features Dilip Jeste, MD

12/1/2020 Shape

Features UC San Diego School of Medicine and UC San Diego Health

11/30/2020 Washington Post

Features Dilip Jeste, MD

11/30/2020 Psychology Today

Features Tanya Nguyen, PhD

11/30/2020 TODAY

Features Dilip Jeste, MD

11/24/2020 American Association for the Advancement of Science honors the contributions of UC San Diego leaders in astrophysics, research advocacy, organic chemistry, psychiatry and geophysics.

11/18/2020 KUSI

Features Daniel Lasoff, MD

11/16/2020 Healio

Features Dilip Jeste, MD

11/16/2020 Forbes

Features Tanya Nguyen, PhD

11/16/2020 Consultant360

Features Raeanne Moore, PhD

11/12/2020 UC San Diego was the first university in California to connect 40,000 student health records to the electronic health record platform of its top-ranked academic medical center, UC San Diego Health. Th ...

11/11/2020 U.S. News & World Report

Features Dilip Jeste, MD, and Tanya Nguyen, PhD

11/10/2020 Seeking to develop effective interventions, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine examined the psychological and environmental factors that lead to patterns of lonelines ...

11/2/2020 San Diego Business Journal

Features Desiree Shapiro, MD

11/2/2020 Times of San Diego

Authored by Dilip Jeste, MD

10/26/2020 Science Blog

Features Dilip Jeste, MD

10/26/2020 Psychology Today

Features Dilip Jeste, MD

10/26/2020 Washington Post

Features Judy Davidson, DNP, RN

10/22/2020 In a recent study, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine found a seventh component of wisdom: spirituality.

10/21/2020 Patch

Cites research by Dilip Jeste, MD

10/20/2020 Atlanta Journal Constitution

Features Christopher Kaufmann, PhD, Kevin Yang, medical student, and Alison Moore, MD

10/20/2020 Healthline

Features Davey Smith, MD

10/20/2020 KUSI

Features Desiree Shapiro, MD

10/14/2020 Times of San Diego

Co-authored by Lisa Delano-Wood, PhD

10/13/2020 Medscape

Features Lisa Delano-Wood, PhD

10/12/2020 Consumer Reports

Features Christopher Kaufmann, PhD, Kevin Yang, med student, and Alison Moore, MD

10/12/2020 U.S. News & World Report

Features Karen Pierce, PhD

10/12/2020 Coronado Eagle & Journal

Features Katherine Nguyen Williams, PhD

10/7/2020 UC San Diego School of Medicine researchers report that older adults are increasingly using cannabis to treat a variety of common health conditions, including pain, sleep disturbances and psychiatric ...

10/5/2020 San Diego Union Tribune

Authored by Wael Al-Delaimy, MD, PhD

10/5/2020 San Diego 7

Features Sonya Norman, PhD

10/1/2020 Science Times

Features Dilip Jeste, MD, and David Brenner, MD, vice chancellor, UC San Diego Health Sciences

10/1/2020 Sify

Features Hector Gonzalez, PhD, and Ariana Stickel, PhD

10/1/2020 Researchers at UC San Diego School of Medicine and University of Rome La Sapienza examined middle-aged and older adults in San Diego and Cilento, Italy and found loneliness and wisdom had a strong neg ...

9/30/2020 Subtle differences in cognition may help identify individuals at risk for becoming dependent years later upon others to complete daily activities, such as managing medications or finances and other es ...

9/28/2020 New Atlas

Features Ellen Lee, MD, Varsha Badal, PhD, and Dilip Jeste, MD

9/28/2020 The Scientist

Features Abraham Palmer, PhD

9/28/2020 Parade

Cites research by John Pierce, PhD (Emeritus), and Karen Messer, PhD

9/28/2020 The Observer

Features Dilip Jeste, MD

9/24/2020 A team led by researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine has used artificial intelligence technologies to analyze natural language patterns to discern degrees of loneliness i ...

9/22/2020 High Times

Cites research at UC San Diego School of Medicine

9/14/2020 Pharmacy Times

Features Lisa Delano-Wood, PhD, and Alexandra Weigand, grad student

9/7/2020 U.S. News & World Report

Features Lisa Delano-Wood, PhD, and Alexandra Weigand, graduate student

9/7/2020 Jerusalem Post

Cites research by John Pierce, PhD (Emeritus), and Karen Messer, PhD

9/4/2020 UC San Diego researchers report that a class of drugs used for a broad array of conditions, from allergies and colds to hypertension and urinary incontinence, may be associated with an increased risk ...

9/2/2020 NewScientist

Features John Pierce, PhD (Emeritus), and Karen Messer, PhD

9/2/2020 Two UC San Diego School of Medicine-led analyses report that e-cigarettes are not effective in helping adults to quit smoking.

9/1/2020 New York Daily News

Features John Ayers, PhD

8/31/2020 San Diego Union Tribune

Authored by David Folsom, MD, and William Perry, PhD

8/31/2020 San Diego Union Tribune

Authored by Martin Stein, MD

8/24/2020 Denver Post

Features UC San Diego School of Medicine

8/17/2020 San Diego Union Tribune

Features Carla Marienfeld, MD

8/12/2020 Medscape

Features Ruben Abagyan, PhD

8/5/2020 Neuroscience News

Features Maksim Bazhenov, PhD

8/5/2020 San Diego Union Tribune

Features Center for Medical Cannabis Research

8/3/2020 U.S News & World Report

Features Ruben Abagyan, PhD

7/30/2020 CNN

Features Ruben Abagyan, PhD

7/30/2020 Zafiris J. "Jeff" Daskalakis, MD, PhD, has been named chair of the Department of Psychiatry at University of California San Diego School of Medicine.

7/30/2020 By analyzing the FDA database of adverse drug effects, UC San Diego researchers discovered that people who received Botox injections - not just in the forehead - reported depression significantly less ...

7/28/2020 New York Times

Cites research at UC San Diego School of Medicine

12/10/2019 A recent study by researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine found that the presence of and search for meaning in life are important for health and well-being, though the rel ...

12/2/2019 UC San Diego Health is the first hospital in San Diego to join the Age-Friendly Health Systems initiative and be recognized as Committed to Care Excellence by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement ...

10/10/2019 The Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research at University of California San Diego School of Medicine announces $3 million in research grants to explore new applications of cannabis for a number of nove ...

8/29/2019 Diets that begin as tools for better health can turn into something more worrying: namely, disordered eating. We ask a UC San Diego Eating Disorders Center expert what behaviors to pay attention to an ...

8/9/2019 Breaking news headlines about school shootings and other tragic events have become a gut-wrenching reality. With news now easily accessible on a variety of platforms, a team of experts provides tips t ...

4/29/2019 Serious physical challenges like illness or injury can affect mental health. UC San Diego Health experts say treating both can speed recovery. But coping is an art that takes different forms for each ...

4/3/2019 This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Department of Psychiatry at UC San Diego School of Medicine, and from the beginning, it's been a different sort of place.

12/13/2018 For some patient demographics, such as teens, mothers and seniors, the holiday may conjure psychiatric issues and symptoms that physicians will need to look out for.

11/6/2018 Our experts answer your questions on everything from headaches to tummy aches. This month, our experts discuss anxiety around the holidays, manicures and melanoma and a prime pooping position.

10/30/2018 Cannabis or its derivatives can be found in everything from smoothies to purported medicines. Experts at UC San Diego School of Medicine's Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research answer some burning qu ...

5/4/2018 Sidney Zisook, MD, a psychiatrist at UC San Diego Health and professor of psychiatry at UC San Diego School of Medicine, talks about different types of depression as well as available treatment option ...