To Boldly Go or Anxiously Hang Back?
UCSF research has identified a particular group of nerve cells in the brain that play an important role in anxiety’s influence over behavior.
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Give to UCSFUCSF research has identified a particular group of nerve cells in the brain that play an important role in anxiety’s influence over behavior.
The technology could one day restore the voices of people who have lost the ability to speak due to paralysis and other forms of neurological damage.
Amyloid positive PET scan.A first-of-its-kind national study has found that a form of brain imaging that detects Alzheimer’s-related “plaques” significantly influenced clinical management of patients
New UCSF study may have answered how your brain knows when you’ve had enough water.
A delicate operation that involved placing a gene into the brain was found to reduce the severity of motor symptoms in patients with moderately advanced Parkinson’s disease.
UCSF researchers developed a strategy for targeting a key molecule implicated in Parkinson’s disease, opening up a potential new treatment strategy for the currently incurable movement disorder.
UCSF lab found that a chemical that acts as a neurotransmitter in the nervous system is essential for cytonemes to mediate cell-to-cell communication between non-neural cells.
More than a thousand projects across the University received federal funding from the National Institutes of Health in 2018, totaling more than $647.8 million.
UCSF researchers created a chimpanzee brain “organoids” that mimic the development and organization of full-size brains.