Mental Health and Psychiatry (Audio)
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Mental Health and Psychiatry (Audio)
Guest speakers, researchers and University of California faculty explore mental illness and mental health.
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Trauma-Focused Therapy for People with Developmental Disabilities
As part of the 2024 Developmental Disabilities Conference, community mental health counselor Brian Tallant provides a compelling rationale for why you...
What Do We Know About How to Foster Mental Wellbeing as We Age?
Explore aging's impact on well-being with Barton Palmer, Ph.D. Learn how resilience, optimism, and social connections shape happiness in later life. D...
A Deep Look Inside Our Minds: Adapting to Change and Stress
The COVID-19 pandemic ushered in a new era of how we interact and function in society. Our brains and behaviors experienced unprecedented upheavals, f...
Physical Activity and Brain Health in Aging
Engaging in everyday physical activity can influence brain and cognitive health. Zvinka Z. Zlatar, Ph.D., shares how physical activity can potentially...
Virtuous Violence: Rethinking the Relationship Between Morality and Aggression - Exploring Ethics
Tage S. Rai is a psychologist who studies ethics, culture, and violence. Drawing on both qualitative and experimental methods, he examines the social-...
A Deep Look into Mental Health: On Campus In Our Community and Around the World
Join UC San Diego’s School of Biological Sciences for the next event in our Deep Look public speaker series. As we move into the holidays and the wint...
Mental Health and the Pandemic: Promoting Healthy Coping Strategies
In this program, Yvette Flores, professor of psychology at UC Davis, discusses how to cope during a crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic, especially soci...
Be Your Own Best Friend: Self-Compassion for Stress Reduction
Mindful self-compassion has been widely researched in recent years and found effective in a wide variety of mental health and wellbeing variables. Dr....
Feeling Extreme Emotions? Try a Survival TIPP
The COVID-19 pandemic has put all of us in crisis mode. So how can you manage feelings of anxiety and stress? Esme Shaller, Ph.D., associate professo...
Deep Breathing - A Fundamental Part of Stress Reduction
Breathing techniques can help us relax and reduce stress and anxiety. Simply slowing our breathing rate can reduce arousal in our autonomic nervous sy...
Mindful Breathing for Anxiety
Regular practice of mindfulness meditations has been widely researched and has been shown to reduce symptoms like anxiety, depression and stress and i...
Magnetic Seizure Therapy for Treatment Resistant Depression with Jeff Daskalakis
What options are there for people with treatment resistant depression? Zafiris "Jeff" Daskalakis, MD, PhD, explains magnetic seizure therapy (MST) inc...
How Older Black Adults Experience Stress and Anxiety
Most research studies don't consider how different races perceive the stressfulness of stress exposure. This has led to a paradox among mental and phy...
Technology for Older Persons with Serious Mental Illnesses (SMI) with Eric Granholm
13.1 million people in the US have a serious mental illness (SMI) such as schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar disorder, and major depress...
Neuroscience and Brain Stimulation with Dhakshin Ramanathan
Dhakshin Ramanathan, MD, PhD, explains the basics of neuroscience and how brain stimulation works. He takes a deep dive into Transcranial Magnetic Sti...
Sleep Better Feel Better: How Sleep Affects Our Mental and Physical Health with Ellen Lee
Ellen Lee, MD, discusses what happens when you sleep, common sleep disorders including insomnia, as well as effective treatments for sleep issues. Ser...
Born from Compassion Built on Excellence – Student Mental Health at UC San Diego
Learn about UC San Diego’s comprehensive mental health and wellness ecosystem, which is designed to empower every student to flourish. Experts highlig...
Magnetic Brain Stimulation
What is magnetic brain stimulation and how can it be used to improve our health? Dhakshin Ramanathan, MD, PhD, and Zafiris "Jeff" Daskalakis, MD, PhD,...
Loneliness vs. Wisdom in the Era of Pandemics with Dilip V. Jeste
Can wisdom be a safeguard for physical and mental heath during difficult times? What kind of resilience has wisdom provided during the COVID-19 pandem...
Dark Persuasion - The History of Brainwashing from Pavlov to Social Media with Joel Dimsdale
Joel Dimsdale discusses his latest book “Dark Persuasion: A History of Brainwashing from Pavlov to Social Media,” which traces the evolution of brainw...
LSD and the War on Memories with Joel Dimsdale
Beginning in the 1950s, the United States embarked on an elaborate program to study how LSD might be used to alter the behavior of an enemy. This coll...
Psychedelics and Mental Health: The Science and the Practice
This session discusses how psychedelic-assisted therapy can relieve suffering in depression and PTSD based on new clinical trials, how they may work w...
Well-Being of Youth and Young Adults
Parenting and educating young people as they transition back to in-person learning and jobs this year is both joyful and challenging. A panel of exper...
From Climate Stress to Activation: The Critical Role of the Health Professional
The climate crisis is impacting health, and health care professionals have a pivotal role as advocates for change. The climate crisis must be mitigate...
Pandemic Burnout and Regeneration for Our New World: One Year Later
A panel of leaders in mental health and science discuss combatting pandemic fatigue, share short meditations, and revisit their previous discussion on...
Anti-Racism and Building an Inclusive Culture
The race equity movement has left us with greater awareness of the urgent need for changes in the way we interact and run our businesses and instituti...
Building Stress Resilience to Withstand the Next Crisis
This discussion focuses on the mental health challenges and lessons learned at UCSF during the pandemic, with a focus on building institutional resour...
Pandemic Transitions: From Collective Grief to Joy
In the wake of the pandemic and systemic social injustice, we are facing vast collective grief. Renowned therapists Jack Saul and Esther Perel discuss...
New Hope and New Treatments for Depression: TMS Ketamine and Psychedelics
Interventional psychiatry focuses on researching and repairing brain circuit dysfunction to bring relief to millions of people who have depression or...
Wisdom: A Tool for Healthy Aging
As we age, physical health declines but people report feeling more satisfied and content. Why is that? Dilip V. Jeste, MD explains that wisdom may be...
Making 2021 the Year of Wisdom - Research on Aging
For over two decades, geriatric psychiatrist Dilip Jeste, MD, has led the search for the biological and cognitive roots of wisdom. In this talk, Dr. J...
Coping with COVID-19: Mental Health Strategies - Health Talks
Experts from the UC San Diego Department of Psychiatry talk about the impacts of COVID-19 on memtal health. They share tips for managing anxiety in ch...
Climate Psychiatry: The Diverse Challenges of Climate to Mental Health
Climate instability is one of the most urgent public health threats of the 21st Century. Mental health is profoundly impacted by the disruptions assoc...
Got Stress? The Science of Measuring and Improving Meditation
Meditation practices have been adapted to treat mental and physical health conditions. It is not a cure-all, and different people respond in different...
Quaranteens: What Do I Do With My Teen?
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused feelings of uncertainty, anxiety, and even anger for teens and tweens, Shelli Kurth and Nicole Assisi share tips on h...
Cultural Factors in Psychiatric Care: Focus on Asian Mental Health
Dr. Descartes Li explores the ways that culture influences mental health. He looks at the effects of cultural identify and the models of illness. He a...
6 Feet Apart - Social Engagement During COVID-19
Social distancing does not mean social isolation. In just a short time, our lives have changed dramatically. The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19)...
The New Science of Practical Wisdom
How wisdom is defined and measured in the laboratory, the biology of wisdom, its dynamic relationship with culture, wisdom and aging, wisdom and healt...
Exploring Physical and Emotional Dimensions of Pain and Loss: The Power of the Mind-Body Connection
Selena Chan, DO, takes you through a brief history of treating mental health from the stone age to today. She then looks at psychiatry today and how w...
Herbal Allies for Emotional Distress
We have come so far in understanding the brain, yet we are often perplexed by our emotions. Geronima Cortese gives an brief history of herbalism and h...