Robert Daroff, MD
Professor
Psychiatry
School of Medicine

I have been on faculty in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences in the UCSF School of Medicine since 1994, during which time my clinical home has been the San Francisco VA Hospital. I am a generalist outpatient psychiatrist, taking care of Veterans with a wide variety of clinical concerns, often working closely with incredibly talented UCSF psychiatry residents and medical students.

Interests

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• Nutrition and mental health
• Nature assisted therapy
• Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy (EMDR)
• LGBTQ mental health
• HIV psychiatry
• Mind body medicine
• Expressive arts therapies
• Meditation and psychiatry
• Medical education
• Mental health effects of speciesism
• racism
• heterosexism
• colonialism
• Psychosomatic medicine
• Military psychiatry
• Psychedelic assisted psychotherapy research

Publications (61)

Top publication keywords:
Nystagmus, PathologicBrain StemBrain DiseasesCerebellar DiseasesFixation, OcularElectrooculographyModels, EducationalOculomotor MusclesOculomotor NervePsychiatrySaccadesTeachingClinical MedicineOphthalmoplegiaEye Movements

• Psilocybin-assisted group therapy for demoralized older long-term AIDS survivor men: An open-label safety and feasibility pilot study.
  EClinicalMedicine 2020 Anderson BT, Danforth A, Daroff PR, Stauffer C, Ekman E, Agin-Liebes G, Trope A, Boden MT, Dilley PJ, Mitchell J, Woolley J
• Research-based models for clinical teaching and their application to psychiatry settings.
  Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry 2013 Teherani A, Daroff RB
• End-point nystagmus.
  Investigative ophthalmology & visual science 1978 Abel LA, Parker L, Daroff RB, Dell'Osso LF
• Computer tomography in a transient brain stem disorder.
  AJR. American journal of roentgenology 1978 Gilner LI, Quencer RM, Daroff RB
• Absence of REM sleep and altered non-REM sleep in patients with spinocerebellar degeneration and slow saccades.
  Transactions of the American Neurological Association 1978 Osorio I, Daroff RB, Richey ET, Simon JB

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• Analog model for gaze-evoked nystagmus.
  IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering 1978 Abel LA, Dell'Osso LF, Daroff RB
• The ocular motor defects in progressive supranuclear palsy.
  Annals of neurology 1977 Troost BT, Daroff RB
• Vertigo.
  American family physician 1977 Daroff RB
• "Inverse latent" macro square-wave jerks and macro saccadic oscillations.
  Annals of neurology 1977 Dell'Osso LF, Abel LA, Daroff RB
• Ocular oscillations.
  The Annals of otology, rhinology, and laryngology 1977 Daroff RB
• Braking saccade--a new fast eye movement.
  Aviation, space, and environmental medicine 1976 Dell'Osso LF, Daroff RB
• Edrophonium infrared optokinetic nystagmography in the diagnosis of myasthenia gravis.
  Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1976 Spector RH, Daroff RB
• Quantitative analysis of the ocular motor deficit in progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP).
  Transactions of the American Neurological Association 1976 Troost BT, Daroff RB, Dell'Osso LF
• Congenital nystagmus waveforms and foveation strategy.
  Documenta ophthalmologica. Advances in ophthalmology 1975 Dell'Osso LF, Daroff RB
• Saccadic eye movement latencies to multimodal stimuli. Intersubject variability and temporal efficiency.
  Vision research 1975 Carlow T, Dell'Osso LF, Troost BT, Daroff RB, Birkett JE
• Macro square wave jerks.
  Neurology 1975 Dell'Osso LF, Troost BT, Daroff RB
• Comparative velocities of different types of fast eye movements in man.
  Investigative ophthalmology 1975 Sharpe JA, Troost BT, Dell'Osso LF, Daroff RB
• Edrophonium infrared optokinetic nystagmography in the diagnosis of myasthenia gravis.
  Neurology 1975 Spector RH, Daroff RB, Birkett JE
• Hypometric saccades.
  American journal of ophthalmology 1974 Troost BT, Weber RB, Daroff RB
• Propranolol and hyperthyroidism. Reversal of upper motor neuron signs.
  JAMA 1974 Rothberg MP, Shebert RT, Levey GS, Daroff RB
• Hereditary congenital nystagmus. An intrafamilial study.
  Archives of ophthalmology (Chicago, Ill. : 1960) 1974 Dell'Osso LF, Flynn JT, Daroff RB
• Paralytic pontine exotropia. A sign of acute unilateral pontine gaze palsy and internuclear ophthalmoplegia.
  Neurology 1974 Sharpe JA, Rosenberg MA, Hoyt WF, Daroff RB
• Pituitary apoplexy in acromegaly followed by partial pituitary insufficiency.
  Archives of internal medicine 1974 Jacobi JD, Fishman LM, Daroff RB
• Functional organization of the ocular motor system.
  Aerospace medicine 1974 Dell'Osso LF, Daroff RB
• Optokinetic asymmetry in internuclear ophthalmoplegia.
  Archives of neurology 1974 Dell'Osso LF, Robinson DA, Daroff RB
• Velocity characteristics of normal human saccades.
  Investigative ophthalmology 1974 Boghen D, Troost BT, Daroff RB, Dell'Osso LF, Birkett JE
• Control of ocular movement.
  The British journal of ophthalmology 1974 Daroff RB
• Upbeat nystagmus.
  JAMA 1973 Daroff RB, Troost BT
• Suppression and facilitation of congenital nystagmus by vertical lines.
  Neurology 1973 Daroff RB, Hoyt WF, Bettman JW, Lessell S
• Electrophysiological investigations of cephalic tetanus.
  Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 1973 Garcia-Mullin R, Daroff RB
• Reply to "a comment on the "glissade"".
  Vision research 1973 Dell'Osso LF, Daroff RB, Troost BT
• Hemispheric control of eye movements. I. Quantitative analysis of refixation saccades in a hemispherectomy patient.
  Archives of neurology 1972 Troost BT, Weber RB, Daroff RB
• Hemispheric control of eye movements. II. Quantitative analysis of smooth pursuit in a hemispherectomy patient.
  Archives of neurology 1972 Troost BT, Daroff RB, Weber RB, Dell'Osso LF
• Corrective movements following refixation saccades: type and control system analysis.
  Vision research 1972 Weber RB, Daroff RB
• The metrics of horizontal saccadic eye movements in normal humans.
  Vision research 1971 Weber RB, Daroff RB
• Ocular bobbing.
  British medical journal 1971 Daroff RB
• Clinical spectrum of ocular bobbing.
  Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 1970 Susac JO, Hoyt WF, Daroff RB, Lawrence W
• Pathology of oculomotor nerve palsy in diabetics.
  Neurology 1970 Weber RB, Daroff RB, Mackey EA
• Physiologic, anatomic and pathophysiologic considerations of eye movements.
  Transactions of the ophthalmological societies of the United Kingdom 1970 Daroff RB
• Chronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia. A critical review.
  Archives of ophthalmology (Chicago, Ill. : 1960) 1969 Daroff RB
• Depression during L-dopa treatment.
  Lancet (London, England) 1969 Wagshul AM, Daroff RB
• L-dopa for progressive supranuclear palsy.
  Lancet (London, England) 1969 Wagshul A, Daroff RB
• Psychological testing of cerebral malaria patients.
  The Journal of nervous and mental disease 1968 Kastl AJ, Daroff RB, Blocker WW
• Edema of the optic disc in hyperthyroidism without exophathalmos. A fluorescein angiographic study of its resolution.
  American journal of ophthalmology 1968 Bettman JW, Daroff RB, Sanders MD, Hoyt WF
• Gaze-evoked eyelid and ocular nystagmus inhibited by the near reflex: unusual ocular motor phenomena in a lateral medullary syndrome.
  Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 1968 Daroff RB, Hoyt WF, Sanders MD, Nelson LR
• Lid nystagmus evoked by ocular convergence: an ocular electromyographic study.
  Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 1968 Sanders MD, Hoyt WF, Daroff RB
• Papilledema and asymptomatic intracranial hypertension in systemic lupus erythematosus. A fluorescein angiographic study of resolving papilledema.
  Archives of ophthalmology (Chicago, Ill. : 1960) 1968 Bettman JW, Daroff RB, Sanders MD, Joyt WF
• Hemicrania, oculosympathetic paresis, and subcranial carotid aneurysm: Raeder's paratrigeminal syndrome (group 2). Case report.
  Journal of neurosurgery 1968 Davis RH, Daroff RB, Hoyt WF
• Familial reflex blepharospasm.
  American journal of ophthalmology 1968 Irvine AR, Daroff RB, Sanders MD, Hoyt WF
• Tonic pupil after temporal arteritis.
  Lancet (London, England) 1968 Davis RH, Daroff RB, Hoyt WF
• Cerebral malaria.
  JAMA 1967 Daroff RB, Deller JJ, Kastl AJ, Blocker W
• Mucocele of the sphenoid sinus. A benign imitator.
  The British journal of ophthalmology 1967 Waldman AL, Merrell R, Daroff RB, Geltzer A
• Delayed development of disturbed mucopolysaccharide metabolism in a Hurler variant.
  Archives of neurology 1967 Pincus JH, Rossi JP, Daroff RB
• Overshoot and oscillation in ocular dysmetria.
  Archives of ophthalmology (Chicago, Ill. : 1960) 1966 Higgins DC, Daroff RB
• Spongiform encephalopathy with chronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia. Central ophthalmoplegia mimicking ocular myopathy.
  Neurology 1966 Daroff RB, Solitare GB, Pincus JH, Glaser GH
• SEE-SAW NYSTAGMUS.
  Neurology 1965 DAROFF RB
• OCULAR BOBBING.
  Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 1965 DAROFF RB, WALDMAN AL
• INTRAOCULAR OPTIC NEURITIS WITH NORMAL VISUAL ACUITY.
  Neurology 1965 DAROFF RB, SMITH JL
• HEMIPLEGIC ATROPHY: HISTOLOGICAL AND ETIOLOGIC CONSIDERATIONS.
  Neurology 1964 FENICHEL GM, DAROFF RB, GLASER GH
• LOCAL PETECHIAL REACTIONS FOLLOWING CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY WITH HYPAQUE.
  Journal of neurosurgery 1964 DAROFF RB, MCENTEE WJ
• SPHENOID SINUS MUCOCELE: A CURABLE CAUSE OF THE OPHTHALMOPLEGIC MIGRAINE SYNDROME.
  JAMA 1964 PINCUS JH, DAROFF RB