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Archive: Neurologist Bruce Miller Discusses Alzheimer's, FTD on Charlie Rose Show
Neurologist Bruce Miller, MD, director of the UCSF Memory and Aging Center, participated in a roundtable discussion on Alzheimer’s disease and frontotemporal dementia on the "Charlie Rose Show."
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Archive: Saving Dogs with Spinal Cord Injuries
Dogs with spinal cord injuries may soon benefit from an experimental drug being tested by researchers at UCSF and Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences — work that they hope will one day help people with similar injuries.
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Archive: New Drug Shows Promise Against Multiple Sclerosis
An experimental drug called Ocrelizumab has shown promise in a Phase 2 clinical trial involving 220 people with multiple sclerosis (MS), an often debilitating, chronic autoimmune disease that affects an increasing number of people in North America.
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Archive: Sleep Disorders and Dementia Linked
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Archive: UCSF Searches for Multiple Sclerosis Cure
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Archive: Sleep Apnea
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Archive: Common Sleep Problem Raises Dementia Risk
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Archive: Sleep Apnea-Dementia Link Revealed in New Study
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Archive: Sleep Apnea May Raise Dementia Risk in Women
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Archive: Sleep Apnea Linked to Dementia in Older Women
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Archive: Treatment of Sleep-Disordered Breathing May Prevent Dementia
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Archive: Traumatic Brain Injury More Than Doubles Dementia Risk
Patients diagnosed with traumatic brain injury (TBI) had over twice the risk of developing dementia within seven years after diagnosis compared to those without TBI, in a study of more than 280,000 older veterans conducted by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and UCSF.
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Archive: Window into the Brain with Adam Boxer, MD, PhD
<p>Many researchers are finding that by the time a patient seeks treatment for symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease, it’s often too late for the available drugs to have an effect. Boxer’s lab is studying very precise eye tracking methods to gauge mental fitness and identify cognitive decline decades before the first symptoms appear.</p>
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Archive: New Life for Damaged Nerves with Hubert Kim, MD, PhD
<p>Each year, scores of soldiers wounded by explosives suffer from debilitating nerve injuries that render their arms and legs useless. Kim’s research, performed at the UCSF-affiliated San Francisco Veterans Affairs hospital, has led to development of artificial nerve grafts to accelerate healing of these injuries.</p>
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Archive: The Multiple Sclerosis and Vitamin D Link
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Archive: Stem Cell Discoveries Pace Growing Understanding of Human Brain's Uniqueness
<p>Scientists are making great strides in figuring out how the human brain develops, which are leading to novel ideas about the causes of a range of brain disorders, and are raising hopes for the regeneration of tissue that is lost in diseases such as Alzheimer’s. </p>
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Archive: Eight Is Too Much For 'Short Sleepers'
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Archive: UCSF Study on Multitasking Reveals Switching Glitch in Aging Brain
Scientists at UCSF have pinpointed a reason older adults have a harder time multitasking than younger adults: they have more difficulty switching between tasks at the level of brain networks.
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Archive: How Blind People Make Sense Of Language
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Archive: Teenage Male Songbird Provides Clues to Human Learning
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Archive: Parkinson's Disease Discoveries Lead to Major Neuroscience Prize for Nussbaum
Parkinson’s disease researcher Robert Nussbaum, a human geneticist and neuroscientist at UCSF, has been named to receive the prestigious Klaus Joachim Zülch Neuroscience Prize for 2011.
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Archive: Cell of origin for brain tumors may predict response to therapy
For patients with glioma, the most common primary brain tumor, new findings may explain why current therapies fail to eradicate the cancer. A UCSF-led team of scientists has identified for the first time that progenitor rather than neural stem cells underly a type of glioma called oligodendroglioma.
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Archive: Prusiner NYT Op-Ed Calls for Alzheimer's Research Funds
UCSF Nobel laureate Stanley Prusiner, MD, and colleagues have called for Congress to more than quadruple annual federal funding for Alzheimer’s research, saying that with a dedicated effort, there is a chance for a breakthrough against the disease by 2020.
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Archive: UCSF Stem-Cell Based Neurological, Liver Therapy Strategies Advanced
UCSF scientists have received two grants from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine to refine their human embryonic stem cell-based strategies for treating neurological diseases and liver failure.
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Archive: UCSF'S Prusiner receives President's National Medal of Science
UCSF Nobel laureate Stanley B. Prusiner, professor of neurology and director of the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases, today (Oct. 15, 2010) was named to receive the National Medal of Science, the nation’s highest honor for science and technology.
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Archive: Teen girls' obesity surgery may raise birth defect risk
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Archive: Parkinson's Disease Protein Impedes Nerve Signaling Long Before Brain Cells Die
Synuclein is a protein that can cause Parkinson’s disease, although it is not clear how. UCSF researcher Robert Edwards, MD, now has discovered that synuclein can affect signal transmission between nerve cells long before disease symptoms arise.
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Archive: Proteins Linked with Alzheimer's, Other Neurodegenerative Diseases Found to Clump in Normal Aging
In neurodegenerative diseases, clumps of insoluble proteins appear in patients’ brains. These aggregates contain proteins that are unique to each disease, such as amyloid beta in Alzheimer’s disease, but they are intertwined with small amounts of many other insoluble proteins that are normally present in a soluble form in healthy young individuals.
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Archive: Brain fitness program study reveals visual memory improvement in older adults
A commercial brain fitness program has been shown to improve memory in older adults, at least in the period soon after training. The findings are the first to show that practicing simple visual tasks can improve the accuracy of short-term, or “working” visual memory.