Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences

Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences

The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences strives to promote new discoveries and understand well-being and mental health across the lifespan using insights from clinical and fundamental neuroscience.  Clinicians engage in multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary efforts that are uniquely possible at Stanford University.

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Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences News

  • Addressing AAPI mental health

    A panel of mental health experts discuss culturally specific barriers to seeking care, along with ways to improve outreach.

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    How Stanford Medicine tackles opioid crisis

    At Stanford Medicine, programs to help patients struggling with substance-abuse disorders, research into addiction, and educational programs to increase awareness about addiction and treatment are aimed at reducing dependence on opioids.

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    Teaching about addiction treatment

    An addiction medicine curriculum at Stanford School of Medicine trains students to better understand causes of and treatments for substance use disorders.

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    Emotional-wellness tool for health care workers

    Stanford Medicine psychologists have created a free mental health resource that health care workers, and anyone, can access online for emotional support.

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    Report on opioid crisis calls for action

    The opioid epidemic is projected to claim 1.22 million U.S. lives this decade without new efforts to stem the crisis, according to a report that traces the roots of the problem and offers in-depth solutions.

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