Interests
Emotions
Virginia Sturm, PhD
Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry
Emotions offer a critical window into mental health and can be modified with simple strategies to improve well-being and reduce dementia risk.
Current Work
Virginia is the John Douglas French Alzheimer’s Foundation Endowed Professor at UCSF in the Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Director of the Clinical Affective Neuroscience Laboratory. Her research focuses on the neural systems that support emotion and social behavior in neurodegenerative disease and neurodevelopmental disorders.
Motivation
Emotions offer a critical window into mental health and can be modified with simple strategies to improve well-being and reduce dementia risk.
