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Psilocybin Rewires the Brain for People with Depression
Scientists at UC San Francisco and Imperial College London found that psilocybin fosters greater connections between different regions of the brain in depressed people, freeing them up from long-held patterns of rumination and excessive self-focus.
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Police Officers Say They’re Overdosing From Fentanyl Exposure. What’s Really Going On?
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Loss of Neurons, Not Lack of Sleep, Makes Alzheimer’s Patients Drowsy
The findings contradict the common notion that Alzheimer’s patients sleep during the day to make up for a bad night of sleep and point toward potential therapies to help these patients feel more awake.
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3D Facial Analysis Shows Biologic Basis for Gender-Affirming Surgery
In order to validate surgical decisions for gender-affirming facial srugery pursued by transgender individuals, researchers from the UC San Francisco and the University of Calgary set out to quantify the effect of sex on adult facial size and shape through an analysis of three-dimensional (3D) facial surface images.
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How Obesity Can Rewire the Immune System and the Response to Immunotherapy – and How to Change That
For the new study published in the journal Nature on March 30, 2022, researchers at Gladstone Institutes, the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, and UC San Francisco (UCSF) teamed up. Their findings, shed light on how obesity can change the immune system and, potentially, how clinicians might be able to better treat allergies and asthma in obese people.
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Follow-Up Prevents Repeat Emergency Department Visits for Kids with Asthma
Follow-up care after an asthma-related visit to the emergency department may help prevent future emergency visits for children, a new study led by UCSF researchers found.
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There’s a Mental-Health Crisis Among American Children. Why?
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Evidence Grows That Vaccines Lower the Risk of Getting Long COVID
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What Does a Faint Line on Your COVID Antigen Test Mean?
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A New Study Says COVID-19 Can Cause Dementia. How Real Is the Risk?
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Seasonal Allergies in the Bay Area May Get Worse – And Affect More People. Here’s Why
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Global Efforts To Get Widespread Plastic Pollution Under Control
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Excessive Napping Could Be a Sign of Dementia, Study Finds
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Extended Napping in Seniors May Signal Dementia
Daytime napping among older people is a normal part of aging – but it may also foreshadow Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias.
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When It Comes to Sleep, It’s Quality Over Quantity
Not everyone needs 8 hours of sleep, say UCSF researchers. Some lucky people are “elite sleepers,” packing sleep’s benefits into 4 to 6 hours a night. Their genes may hold clues to how efficient sleep can fend off dementia.
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UCSF Task Force Examines the Mental Health Impacts of Climate Change
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S.F. Homeless Deaths More Than Doubled During the Pandemic’s First Year – But Not Because of COVID
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Homeless Deaths Doubled in San Francisco During the Pandemic’s First Year, Mostly from Drug Overdoses
More than twice as many people experiencing homelessness in San Francisco died during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic compared to previous years, with the leading cause of death being drug overdose. No deaths were attributed to the virus itself.
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Seniors with Memory Issues Take Multiple Medications, but Most Are Willing to Cut Down
55% of seniors with dementia take more than six medications even though most have good health. However, a UCSF study showed that 87% are willing to cut down if their doctors agree.
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Treating Tough Tumors by Exploiting Their Iron ‘Addiction’
UCSF researchers successfully leveraged an FDA-approved drug to halt growth of tumors driven by mutations in the RAS gene, which are famously difficult to treat and account for about one in four cancer deaths.
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Using AI in Electrocardiogram Analysis Can Improve Diagnosis and Treatment of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
Using AI in ECG analysis improves diagnosis, treatment and monitoring of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a leading cause of sudden death in adolescents.
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How UCSF’s Data Science Team Took on COVID
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COVID-19 May Be Linked to Spontaneous Psychosis. Researchers Are Trying to Figure Out Why
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Studies Reveal New ‘Stealth’ Omicron Variant Is 30% More Transmissible. Should California Be Worried?
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Solving the Mystery of a Stubborn – and Common – Cancer Gene
Mark Moasser, MD, has sorted out why HER2, the protein driving 1 in 5 breast cancers, is so hard to drug. He explains how the findings correct a naive way of envisioning how HER2 is shaped and how it works.
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IUDs Tie Tubal Ligation for Pregnancy Prevention
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Tubal Ligation No Better Than IUD at Preventing Pregnancy
When women's health researchers analyzed Medi-Cal data to see how two long-term contraceptives performed in the real world, they were surprised to find IUDs work at least as well as tubal ligation, while causing fewer side effects.
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Brainpower May Take A Beating Following Concussion
Concussion may have a long-term impact on cognition, a new UCSF-led study finds. Fourteen percent of patients had "poor cognitive outcome" one year post injury, with car collisions being the leading cause of concussion.
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Global Strategy on Schistosomiasis Gets a Reboot, Based on Research by UCSF Physician
In medical school, Nathan Lo thought we could do more to help the 750 million people around the world with or at risk of getting schistosomiasis. This week, he helped World Health Organization rewrite guidelines to treat everyone in affected communities.
