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Hospital MRIs may be better at predicting long-term outcomes for people with mild traumatic brain injuries than CT scans, according to a clinical trial led by researchers at UCSF and the San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center.
William Seeley maps the path of frontotemporal dementia through the brain, correlating specific damage with behavioral change. By studying the disease from self to circuits to cells, this visionary neurologist searches for inroads to treatment.
Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes, which is affiliated with UCSF, are recommending a shift in efforts to treat Alzheimer’s disease by developing drugs that target the apoE4 protein, which has long been associated with an increased risk for the disease.
A few of the many UCSF projects underway across the globe.
Scientists at the UCSF-affiliated Gladstone Institutes have defined for the first time a key underlying process implicated in multiple sclerosis — a discovery offers new hope for the millions who suffer from this debilitating disease for which there is no cure.
<p>A team of researchers from UCSF and the University of Pennsylvania has uncovered how a normal biological mechanism called the “unfolded protein response,” goes awry in human lymphoma – work that may lead to the development of specific drugs to fight different forms of cancer.</p>
Five UCSF scientists – bioengineers Tejal Desai and Shuvo Roy, MD/PhD candidate Mozziyar Etemadi, microbiologist Joe DeRisi, and physician/surgeon Michael Harrison – trace their path toward five inventions that are changing the face of medicine.
People with the shortest telomeres really do have a date with the Grim Reaper, according to new data coming out of the largest and most diverse genomics, health and longevity project in the nation.
Women exposed to trauma may be at greater risk of developing post-traumatic stress disorder because of a heightened fear response, according to a new study.
DNA sequences obtained from a handful of patients with multiple sclerosis at the UCSF Medical Center have revealed the existence of an “immune exchange” that allows the disease-causing cells to move in and out of the brain.
A preliminary UCSF study suggests a possible link between mind wandering and aging, by looking at a biological measure of longevity.
<p>Personalized medicine advances arising from genetic discoveries were the primary focus of wide-ranging presentations at the <a href="http://humgen.medschool.ucsf.edu/">UCSF Institute for Human Genetics</a> 2012 Symposium on Nov. 5.</p>