Could This Novel Therapy Calm Anxiety for Millions of Americans?
Generalized anxiety disorder affects 1 in 20 U.S. adults. Those with serious symptoms may isolate themselves to the point that they rarely leave their home.
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Is the Holy Grail for Treating Chronic Back Pain Within Reach?
UCSF neurologist Dr. Shirvalkar studies nerve-to-brain connections to find new ways to treat chronic back pain.
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UCSF Study on CTE Seeks Living Athletes’ Data to Help Diagnose the Degenerative Disease
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If Anti-Seizure Meds Don’t Work for Epilepsy, Can Surgery Help?
Vikram Rao, director of the UCSF Epilepsy Center, discusses why a third of seizure patients don’t respond to medication and the promising new surgical and technological treatments available.
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These Cells Have Hidden Powers That Could Heal Brain Injuries
UCSF scientists discovered that an overlooked cell type in the brain plays a central role in healing traumatic brain injury. Understanding how it does this will lead to treatments for injuries that currently have only minimal interventions.
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Scientists Look to Commercial Dyes to Help them Diagnose Dementia
A study screened dyes found in textiles and in the laser industry that can be used in imaging for preclinical studies to diagnose and differentiate between neurodegenerative diseases. Currently, dyes used in mouse studies cannot distinguish between different types of dementia.
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Dr. Sanjay Gupta Explores New Ways to Treat Pain
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Bruce Willis’ Personality Changes Key to Dementia Diagnosis: UCSF Expert
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From Chronic Pain to Parkinson’s, 4 Ways DBS is Changing Care
UCSF looks back on four ways it pioneered deep brain stimulation with the help of federal funding, helping patients with Parkinson’s Disease, chronic pain, depression, and more.
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This Protein Slows the Aging Brain, and We Know How to Counter It
Scientists discover a protein that gets concentrated in the brain during aging, leading brain connections to wither and cognitive decline to accelerate - and a way to counter its effects.
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Treating Chronic Pain is Hard. An Experimental Approach Shows Promise.
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Pandemic Aged Our Brains Faster, Whether or Not We Got COVID, Study Says
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Meet the Little Brain Region that Helps You Say What’s on Your Mind
Researchers discovered that a different part of the brain handles stringing sounds and words together into coherent sentences. The information could help people who have had strokes and lost the ability to create sentences.
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These Immune Cells Eat Molecular Trash to Keep Alzheimer’s at Bay
Microglia, a type of brain immune cell, can gobble up amyloid beta protein, which clumps together into toxic aggregates during Alzheimer's disease.
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Do These Two Cancer Drugs Have What It Takes to Beat Alzheimer’s?
Scientists at UCSF and Gladstone Institutes have identified cancer drugs that promise to reverse the changes that occur in the brain during Alzheimer’s, potentially slowing or even reversing its symptoms.
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Tailored Deep Brain Stimulation Improves Walking in Parkinson’s
For patients with Parkinson's disease, changes in their ability to walk can be dramatic. “Parkinson’s gait,” as it is often called, can include changes in step length and asymmetry between legs. This
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Visual Migraine Symptoms Linked to Tiny Brain Lesions
Visual auras, like those that occur in migraines, may be signs of small injuries to the brain’s visual cortex, according to a clinical trial at UC San Francisco that tracked the appearance of these
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Why Do Some Brain Regions Resist Alzheimer’s?
It’s been recognized for some time that Alzheimer’s disease affects brain regions differently and that tau — a protein known to misbehave — plays an important role in the disease. Normally, tau helps
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UCSF Leads Statewide Efforts to Improve Dementia Care, Diagnosis
A critical step in meeting the needs of the growing aging population is early recognition of cognitive decline. In California, women who live to be 65 or older have a one in four chance of developing
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How Serious is Your Brain Injury? New Criteria Will Reveal More
After more than 50 years, the assessment of traumatic brain injuries gets an overhaul. Clinicians say the proposed framework will lead to more accurate diagnoses and treatment, providing more rigorous care for some patients and preventing premature discussions about halting life support in others.
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A New System Aims to Save Injured Brains and Lives
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How Do Middle-Aged Folks Get Dementia? It Could Be These Proteins
UCSF researchers have found clues about how frontotemporal dementia develops that could lead to new diagnostics and get more patients into clinical trials.
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How ‘Magic Mushrooms’ Could Help Parkinson’s Disease Patients
A first-of-its-kind study tested the safety of psilocybin on patients with mild to moderate Parkinson’s disease and found that patients experienced clinically significant improvements in mood, cognition, and motor function that lasted for weeks after the drug was out of their systems.
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Breakthrough Multiple Sclerosis Therapy by UCSF Doctor Transforms Treatment for Millions
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Bay Area Patients Among First in U.S. To Receive Life-Changing Parkinson’s Treatment
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Stephen Hauser Wins Breakthrough Prize for Role in Redefining MS
Neuro-immunologist Stephen Hauser, MD, whose maverick thinking transformed the treatment landscape for patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), has received the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences.
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Is Increased Sleepiness in Our 80s Tied to Higher Dementia Risk?
A study followed the sleep patterns of older female participants to see if specific patterns of change were associated with a higher risk of dementia. The participants, whose average age was 83, were monitored by wrist devices that track movement and time spent asleep.
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NIH Funding Drives UCSF’s Pursuit of Better Health for All
UCSF received $815 million in awards from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) last year for research that will improve the lives of patients in the U.S. and around the world.
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How a Paralyzed Man Moved a Robotic Arm with His Thoughts
A paralyzed man was able to move a robotic arm and fingers simply by imagining himself doing so, with the help of brain signals decoded through a computer.
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How to Build Bold Thinking to Foster Scientific Breakthroughs
Martin Kampmann, PhD, and Anna Victoria Molofsky, MD, PhD, are the 2025 recipients of the Bowes Biomedical Investigator award, which supports scientists who take novel approaches and have the potential to make significant contributions to biomedicine. Recipients receive $1.25 million over five years.
