UC San Diego Department of Psychiatry

Mentorship matters! Drs. @joann_trejo and Risbrough recognize the incredible impact of mentorship in shaping the future of Health Sciences by sharing the highlights of Faculty Mentor Training Program (FMTP). #UCSD_MEC_2024

Ecstatic to say that I will be joining UCSD's Dept of Psychiatry as Asst Prof Feb 1st! My lab will be bridging 🌉 brain imaging 🧠 and genetics 🧬research to understand adolescent psychiatric disorders 📈, esp eating disorders & related conditions @PsychiatryUcsd @UCSDHealth

🙏Big thank you to participants @UCSD_EDC, collaborators at @PsychiatryUcsd, 💸funding @NIMHgov and co-authors, including big assists from @goliashf @CWierengaPhD @agrethe - super excited to build upon this work in my new lab, stay tuned! 8/end

I had a great time presenting at @tech_in_psych, an @ACNPorg affiliate conference today! Grateful to work with Dr. Ellen Lee @UCSDMedSchool @PsychiatryUcsd on leveraging ML to classify salient predictors of cognitive impairment. Hope to continue bridging tech and psychiatry.

New paper out in Journal of Alzheimer's disease on the curation of dementia data from the Million Veterans Program. Proud to be part of the effort lead by Mark Logue at Boston University and Victoria Merritt at UC San Diego. doi.org/10.1177/138728…

Happy Holidays and a very Happy New Year to everyone from the #NEATLabs @PsychiatryUcsd @UCSDHealthSci @UCSD team! Grateful for another year of incredible science in the service of mental healthcare and looking forward to a brand new one with this super rockin' team 🎉🧠💜

The addiction field has been waiting for 10 years for this landmark study to come out. @PsychiatryUcsd @NIAAAnews @NIDAnews Fascinating results solving the chicken and egg problem of individual brain differences in addiction. The pre-existing differences in brain anatomy are…

Does Drug Intake Despite Adverse Consequences Really Measure Compulsivity? There’s a big debate in addiction research: is drug use despite adverse consequences (like punishment) a standalone measure of compulsive behavior, or just part of a larger addiction profile? This new…

Excited to share our latest @eLife pub, 7 years into the making. This study highlights the critical need to understand individual differences in addiction research. And this is just the beginning, stay tuned for upcoming stories applying this approach to alcohol and opioids

Welcome to the UC San Diego Health team, Bob Barker! 🐾💙

Congrats to a large team in the Dept that recently published: Y and mitochondrial chromosomes in the heterogeneous stock rat population led by Dr. Faith Okamoto inc @giodeguglielmo @kallupi_marsida @brainaddiction & others led by @AbePalmer #GWAS #RATTACA academic.oup.com/g3journal/adva…

Very cool new R01 for Drs. Kelly Courtney (PI) + Anthenelli McKenna Pittman & Weibel (Co-Is) on: Advancing VR-Based Attentional Bias as a Biomarker for Tobacco Use Disorder from @NIDAnews #Tobacco #smoking #VirtualReality @UCSDHealth

Congrats to Dr Nick Hollon (@ngh_op13) + Hnasko lab and @JaredWYoung on Nick's first R01 from @NINDSfunding on: Substantia nigra circuits (SNc) in instrumental action Here they target GABA driven SNc dopamine paths for motivation-related deficits in #Parkinsons disease #Effort

Congratulations @AbePalmer and team:)! @NIDAnews

Happy Friday and #congratulations to @AbePalmer and colleagues (Oksana Polesskaya) on their recent P30 grant from @NIDAnews on: Center for #Genetics, #Genomics, and #Epigenetics of #SubstanceUse Disorders in Outbred Rats. Check out: ratgenes.org

Thank you for the shout out 🥹 excited to share that inflammatory pain alters AD plasma biomarkers

Enjoying the @cmcr_ucsd symposium 2024. #Congrats to Drs Alexandros Makriyannis & Mark Ware for their awards! Great intro to the history of #cannabis (former) and its role in chronic pain (latter) Join us for the latest in #cannabinoid research! cmcr.ucsd.edu/index.php/cmcr… #CMCR2024

The breadth of our Dept is evidenced by a recent SBIR grant from @NIMHgov to @NicoleStadnick & @LBrookmanFrazee on Integration and Evaluation of the cMHQ, a Novel Transdiagnostic Mental Assessment in Clinical #Pediatric Practice working with #SapienHealth #Congratulations

Congratulations to Dr Cory Weissman on his recent K23 Award from @NIMHgov investigating: Cortical Inhibition as a Biomarker of Response in a Comparison of Bilateral versus Unilateral Accelerated Theta Burst Stimulation for Suicidal Ideation in Treatment Resistant Depression #TRD

Cool new work from @TylerBellPhD et al (inc Drs Franz, @KRThomasPhD Williams @LisaEylerPhD Lerman @cfn_peace Panizzon @elman_jeremy Kremen) Elevated CRP in Older Men With Chronic #Pain: Association With Plasma #Amyloid Levels and #Hippocampal Volume academic.oup.com/biomedgerontol…