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A new study shows that an immune signal named interleukin 33 plays a crucial role in allowing the brain to maintain the optimal number of synapses during the development of the central nervous system.
Denal Dubal, an associate professor of neurology at UCSF, thinks we can use the science of aging to help stave off these neurodegenerative diseases.
UCSF researchers have discovered that the brain’s ability to regulate body weight depends on a novel form of signaling in the brain’s “hunger circuit” via antenna-like structures on neurons called primary cilia.
UCSF neurologists have discovered monthly cycles of brain activity linked to seizures in patients with epilepsy.
Anna Molofsky is researching how synapses pruning and formation occur normally during brain development in the hope of determining how subtle shifts in balance lead to neurodevelopmental disorders.
Kristine Yaffe shares what scientists are learning about the long-term consequences of traumatic brain injury.
Amanda Woerman explores how basic science fuels efforts to end trauma-induced brain disease.
More than half of TBI patients are over 65 – research hasn’t caught up to the demographic shift.
Millions of people suffer traumatic brain injuries each year, but there remains no effective treatment.
Whether you are seeing them for the first time or coming back for another look, check out the most popular scientific stories from UC San Francisco from the past year.
Researchers at UCSF have developed a new genetic model of autism, using neurons created in the lab from patients’ own skin cells.
Children with an extremely deadly form of brain cancer might benefit from a new treatment that aims to direct an immune response against a mutant form of a protein found exclusively on cancer cells.
The UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences has awarded funding to 11 UC San Francisco scientists seeking to support the Institute’s mission to improve the lives of people with brain diseases and disorders through innovative projects that unite the scientific disciplines of neurology, psychiatry and neurosurgery.