Stuart Eisendrath, MD
Prof of Clinical Psychiatry
Psychiatry
School of Medicine

I focus my research on Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy as a treatment for major depressive disorder. I am investigating its usage for treatment-resistant depression in a RCT including fMRI to assess brain functioning pre and post intervention.

Awards

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• Senior Fellow, Mind and Life Institute, 2012
• Distinguished Life Fellow, American Psychiatric Association, 2010
• George Sarlo Prize for Teaching, UCSF, 2008-2009
• Best Doctor, Best Doctors in America, 2005-2017

Education & Training

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• Residency School of Medicine University of California, San Francisco

Interests

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• as well as malingering. I have a longstanding interest in the psychiatric aspects of chronic pain.
• I have extensive background experience in major depressive disorder and its associated features
• having been the Director of the UCSF Depression Center for 15 years. I have an ongoing interest in abnormal illness behaviors including factitious disorders
• somatic symptom disorders such as conversion disorders and somatization

Websites

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• Profile at UCSF Department of Psychiatry (psych.ucsf.edu)
• Clinical Profile at UCSF Medical Center (ucsfhealth.org)

Videos

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• Staying in the Now: Maintaining Mental Health Through Mindfulness (youtube.com)
• Applying Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy to Treatment: The Practicing Alternatives to Heal Depression Study (youtube.com)

Grants and Projects

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• Applying Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy to Treatment-Resistant Depression, NIH, 2008-2015

Publications (49)

Top publication keywords:
Anxiety DisordersMeditationMindfulnessSick RoleAvoidance LearningPsychotherapyDepressive Disorder, Treatment-ResistantDepressive DisorderMusculoskeletal PainModels, PsychologicalFactitious DisordersMunchausen SyndromeDepressive Disorder, MajorPsychiatryEducation

• Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy: Innovative Applications
  Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy: Innovative Applications 2016 Eisendrath S (ed)
• Evaluation of major depressive disorder using 7 Tesla phase sensitive neuroimaging before and after mindfulness-based cognitive therapy.
  Journal of affective disorders 2023 Jakary A, Lupo JM, Mackin S, Yin A, Murray D, Yang T, Mukherjee P, Larson P, Xu D, Eisendrath S, Luks T, Li Y
• Preventing Depression Relapse: A Qualitative Study on the Need for Additional Structured Support Following Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy.
  Global advances in integrative medicine and health 2023 Siwik CJ, Adler SR, Moran PJ, Kuyken W, Segal Z, Felder J, Eisendrath S, Hecht FM
• Dysfunctional Cortical Gradient Topography in Treatment-Resistant Major Depressive Disorder.
  Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging 2022 Pasquini L, Fryer SL, Eisendrath SJ, Segal ZV, Lee AJ, Brown JA, Saggar M, Mathalon DH
• Online Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for People with Parkinson's Disease and Their Caregivers: a Pilot Study.
  Journal of technology in behavioral science 2022 Seritan AL, Iosif AM, Prakash P, Wang SS, Eisendrath S

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• "Non-healing Wounds": Addressing Complex Physical and Emotional Trauma in a Case of Factitious Disorder.
  Harvard review of psychiatry 2022 Peng CS, Koire AM, Eisendrath S, Abrams J, Feldman MD, Jimenez-Madiedo C
• The Many Roads to Mindfulness: A Review of Nonmindfulness-Based Interventions that Increase Mindfulness.
  Journal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.) 2019 Xia T, Hu H, Seritan AL, Eisendrath S
• Blunted amygdala activity is associated with depression severity in treatment-resistant depression.
  Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience 2017 Ferri J, Eisendrath SJ, Fryer SL, Gillung E, Roach BJ, Mathalon DH
• Evaluating metabolites in patients with major depressive disorder who received mindfulness-based cognitive therapy and healthy controls using short echo MRSI at 7 Tesla.
  Magma (New York, N.Y.) 2016 Li Y, Jakary A, Gillung E, Eisendrath S, Nelson SJ, Mukherjee P, Luks T
• A Randomized Controlled Trial of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Treatment-Resistant Depression.
  Psychotherapy and psychosomatics 2016 Eisendrath SJ, Gillung E, Delucchi KL, Segal ZV, Nelson JC, McInnes LA, Mathalon DH, Feldman MD
• A Preliminary Study: Efficacy of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy versus Sertraline as First-line Treatments for Major Depressive Disorder.
  Mindfulness 2015 Eisendrath SJ, Gillung E, Delucchi K, Mathalon DH, Yang TT, Satre DD, Rosser R, Sipe WE, Wolkowitz OM
• Critical analysis of the efficacy of meditation therapies for acute and subacute phase treatment of depressive disorders: a systematic review.
  Psychosomatics 2014 Jain FA, Walsh RN, Eisendrath SJ, Christensen S, Rael Cahn B
• Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) versus the health-enhancement program (HEP) for adults with treatment-resistant depression: a randomized control trial study protocol.
  BMC complementary and alternative medicine 2014 Eisendrath SJ, Gillung EP, Delucchi KL, Chartier M, Mathalon DH, Sullivan JC, Segal ZV, Feldman MD
• Preliminary long-term follow-up of Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy-induced remission of depression.
  Mindfulness 2013 Munshi K, Eisendrath S, Delucchi K
• Resting-state functional connectivity of subgenual anterior cingulate cortex in depressed adolescents.
  Biological psychiatry 2013 Connolly CG, Wu J, Ho TC, Hoeft F, Wolkowitz O, Eisendrath S, Frank G, Hendren R, Max JE, Paulus MP, Tapert SF, Banerjee D, Simmons AN, Yang TT
• Altered cerebral perfusion in executive, affective, and motor networks during adolescent depression.
  Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 2013 Ho TC, Wu J, Shin DD, Liu TT, Tapert SF, Yang G, Connolly CG, Frank GK, Max JE, Wolkowitz O, Eisendrath S, Hoeft F, Banerjee D, Hood K, Hendren RL, Paulus MP, Simmons AN, Yang TT
• Pain, avoidance, and suffering.
  Pain 2012 Eisendrath SJ
• Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy: theory and practice.
  Canadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie 2012 Sipe WE, Eisendrath SJ
• Adapting Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Treatment-Resistant Depression: A Clinical Case Study.
  Cognitive and behavioral practice 2011 Eisendrath S, Chartier M, McLane M
• Subdiagnostic alcohol use by depressed men and women seeking outpatient psychiatric services: consumption patterns and motivation to reduce drinking.
  Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research 2011 Satre DD, Chi FW, Eisendrath S, Weisner C
• Enhancing patient safety and resident education during the academic year-end transfer of outpatients: lessons from the suicide of a psychiatric patient.
  Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry 2011 Young JQ, Eisendrath SJ
• Adapting Ancient Wisdom for the Treatment of Depression: Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy Group Training.
  Group 2010 Chartier M, Bitner R, Peng T, Coffelt N, McLane M, Eisendrath S
• Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for treatment-resistant depression: a pilot study.
  Psychotherapy and psychosomatics 2008 Eisendrath SJ, Delucchi K, Bitner R, Fenimore P, Smit M, McLane M
• Computerized screening for alcohol and drug use among adults seeking outpatient psychiatric services.
  Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.) 2008 Satre D, Wolfe W, Eisendrath S, Weisner C
• Factitious disorders: potential litigation risks for plastic surgeons.
  Annals of plastic surgery 2008 Eisendrath SJ, Telischak KS
• Psychiatric and behavioral correlates of factitious blindness.
  Comprehensive psychiatry 2007 Feldman MD, Eisendrath SJ, Tyerman M
• Treating tobacco dependence in clinically depressed smokers: effect of smoking cessation on mental health functioning.
  American journal of public health 2007 Prochaska JJ, Hall SM, Tsoh JY, Eisendrath S, Rossi JS, Redding CA, Rosen AB, Meisner M, Humfleet GL, Gorecki JA
• Addressing nicotine dependence in psychodynamic psychotherapy: perspectives from residency training.
  Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry 2007 Prochaska JJ, Fromont SC, Banys P, Eisendrath SJ, Horowitz MJ, Jacobs MH, Hall SM
• Treatment for cigarette smoking among depressed mental health outpatients: a randomized clinical trial.
  American journal of public health 2006 Hall SM, Tsoh JY, Prochaska JJ, Eisendrath S, Rossi JS, Redding CA, Rosen AB, Meisner M, Humfleet GL, Gorecki JA
• Implementing interpersonal psychotherapy in a psychiatry residency training program.
  Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry 2006 Lichtmacher J, Eisendrath SJ, Haller E
• Management of psychiatric problems in critically ill patients.
  The American journal of medicine 2006 Eisendrath SJ, Shim JJ
• The association of pharmaceutical company promotional spending with resident physician prescribing behavior.
  Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry 2005 Huang FY, Weiss DS, Fenimore PG, Fleming AM, Haller E, Lichtmacher JE, Eisendrath SJ
• Acceptance of nicotine dependence treatment among currently depressed smokers.
  Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco 2005 Haug NA, Hall SM, Prochaska JJ, Rosen AB, Tsoh JY, Humfleet G, Delucchi K, Rossi JS, Redding CA, Eisendrath S
• Predictors of health functioning in two high-risk groups of smokers.
  Drug and alcohol dependence 2004 Prochaska JJ, Sorensen JL, Hall SM, Rossi JS, Redding CA, Rosen AB, Eisendrath SJ, Meisner MR
• Depressed smokers and stage of change: implications for treatment interventions.
  Drug and alcohol dependence 2004 Prochaska JJ, Rossi JS, Redding CA, Rosen AB, Tsoh JY, Humfleet GL, Eisendrath SJ, Meisner MR, Hall SM
• Factitious physical disorders, litigation, and mortality.
  Psychosomatics 2004 Eisendrath SJ, McNiel DE
• Training psychiatry residents in evidence-based treatments for major depression.
  Psychotherapy and psychosomatics 2003 Eisendrath SJ, Lichtmacher JE, Haller E, Fleming AM, Fritch M, Weiss DS, Jacobs M, Hall SM
• Factitious disorders in civil litigation: twenty cases illustrating the spectrum of abnormal illness-affirming behavior.
  The journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law 2002 Eisendrath SJ, McNiel DE
• Psychiatric training in primary care medicine residency programs. A national survey.
  Psychosomatics 2000 Chin HP, Guillermo G, Prakken S, Eisendrath S
• When Munchausen becomes malingering: factitious disorders that penetrate the legal system.
  The Bulletin of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law 1996 Eisendrath SJ
• Psychiatric aspects of chronic pain.
  Neurology 1995 Eisendrath SJ
• Factitious physical disorders.
  The Western journal of medicine 1994 Eisendrath SJ
• Dextroamphetamine treatment for depression in terminally ill patients.
  Psychosomatics 1994 Burns MM, Eisendrath SJ
• Psychiatric predictors of pseudoepileptic seizures in patients with refractory seizures.
  The Journal of neuropsychiatry and clinical neurosciences 1994 Eisendrath SJ, Valan MN
• Fluoxetine management of chronic abdominal pain.
  Psychosomatics 1992 Eisendrath SJ, Kodama KT
• Adverse neuropsychiatric effects of dopamine antagonist medications. Misdiagnosis in the medical setting.
  Psychosomatics 1991 Ferrando SJ, Eisendrath SJ
• Ranitidine-associated delirium.
  Psychosomatics 1990 Eisendrath SJ, Ostroff JW
• Factitious physical disorders: treatment without confrontation.
  Psychosomatics 1989 Eisendrath SJ
• Guillain-Barré syndrome: psychosocial aspects of management.
  Psychosomatics 1983 Eisendrath SJ, Matthay MA, Dunkel JA, Zimmerman JK, Layzer RB