The Adult Psychiatry Residency Training Program includes the biological, psychological and socio-cultural aspects of psychiatry and strives to prepare residents for successful careers emphasizing clinical practice, scholarship, teaching and research.
Each department within the UCSF Weill Institute features nationally renowned centers, clinics and programs dedicated to advancing the full spectrum of brain health.
Core Departments and Programs
Department of Neurological Surgery
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
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The Alcoholism and Addiction Research Group works to understand the neural mechanisms of the drug actions that mediate reward and on mechanisms of learning and memory -- phenomena that play key roles in the addictive process.
One of 18 research centers funded by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, the Alcohol Center for Translational Genetics focuses on validating new candidate genes as targets for therapeutics and as risk factors for alcohol use disorders.
The Alliance Health Project is a division of the Department of Psychiatry at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center whose mission is to support the mental health and wellness of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ), and HIV-affected communities in constructing healthy and meaningful lives.
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease, is a progressive, fatal disease that attacks nerve cells and pathways in the brain and spinal cord causing the body's motor neurons to waste away. The ALS's mission is to minimize suffering from this disease, and allow patients to lead more autonomous lives.
The Anxiety Disorders Clinic at Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute is a multidisciplinary specialty clinic that provides evaluation and treatment for individuals with all types of anxiety disorders, including generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), panic disorder (PD), social anxiety disorder or social phobia (SocP), specific phobias (SP), post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), and other types of anxiety symptoms.
The Parkinson's Disease Clinic and Research Center has been a National Parkinson's Foundation Center of Excellence since 1992.
The Bipolar Disorder Program at Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute is a community resource for individuals with bipolar disorder, psychiatrists, and other mental health professionals.
The goals of the Brain and Spinal Injury Center are to translate basic neuroscience into clinical practice, understand brain and spinal cord injury, train the next generation of neurotrauma clinicians and scientists, and educate the public on neurotrauma research.
Pathology at UCSF Medical Center offers a Brain Autopsy Service for patients who were treated by the UCSF Memory and Aging Center and who were participants in ongoing research projects.
The UCSF Brain Development Research Program investigates the genetic and biological mechanisms and clinical manifestations of autism, epilepsy, and disorders of brain development such as agenesis of the corpus callosum and Aicardi syndrome.
The Brain Imaging and EEG Laboratory is a clinical and cognitive neuroscience laboratory that uses advanced imagining techniques to study the brain structure and function of patients diagnosed with schizophrenia.
BrainLENS integrates the latest brain imaging techniques, genetic analysis, and computational approaches to examine processes of learning, including acquisition of skills, such as reading, socio-emotional processing, motivation and resilience.
The Brighten Center is one of the leading programs in the nation providing depression treatment and conducting state-of-the-art clinical research to improve interventions for depression and late life depression through digital health.
The Center for Cerebrovascular Research is a core group of faculty and staff pursuing integrative and interdisciplinary study of cerebrovascular disease, utilizing the tools of vascular cell biology, animal models, human genetics, disease epidemiology and treatment outcomes research.
The Center for Encephalitis and Meningitis (CEM) unites groundbreaking scientific discovery with expert clinical care to address challenging neuroinflammatory conditions.