Archive: Protein Links Alcohol Abuse and Changes in Brain’s Reward Center
UCSF researchers have identified a protein that links alcohol consumption with structural changes in one of the “reward centers” in the mouse brain.
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Archive: Top Avoidable Emergency Room Visits: Alcohol, Dental Issues and Depression
Alcohol abuse, dental conditions and depression were among the top causes of avoidable emergency room visits nationally.
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Archive: Low-Cost Preventive Care May Help Heart Health for People with Serious Mental Illness
A UCSF study identified a cost-effective way to ensure that people with serious mental illness receive frequent cardiovascular screening: an evidence-based integrated care model that leverages technology.
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Archive: New Tool May Allow Doctors to ‘See’ Bacterial Infection in the Body
UCSF scientists have developed an imaging tool that could soon allow doctors to locate and visualize bacterial infections in the body.
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Archive: Blunting CRISPR’s ‘Scissors’ Gives New Insight into Autoimmune Disorders
Research team led by University of California scientists has used a modified version of the gene-editing technique CRISPR to find enhancers by prompting them into action.
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Archive: Novel Treatment Aims to Transform Protocol for Deadly Blood Disorder
UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals will pioneer stem cell transplants for a uniquely challenging patient population: second-trimester fetuses stricken with a potentially fatal disease.
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Archive: New UCSF Program Aims to Advance Equity in Genomic Medicine in the Bay Area
A team of UCSF researchers will receive $11.7 million over four years from the National Institutes of Health to launch a new Program in Prenatal and Pediatric Genomic Sequencing at UCSF.
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Archive: Common Use of Antibiotics in Cells Grown for Research Could Distort Tests
A new study by UCSF researchers raises a red flag against adding antibiotics when growing cells in labs, finding that it can induce unintentional genetic changes in the cells and distort test results.
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Archive: Switching Sugar for Starch Leads to Less Fatty Liver in Kids
An experimental diet that cut out a type of sugar significantly reversed the buildup of liver fat in children and adolescents – a condition strongly linked to Type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
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Archive: Searching for the Brain Cells That Control Our Breathing
The mechanisms by which the brain regulates breathing are still a mystery, one that UCSF physiologist Kevin Yackle is tackling with the latest tools of molecular biology.
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Archive: How the Human Brain Detects the ‘Music’ of Speech
Researchers at UCSF have identified neurons in the human brain that respond to pitch changes in spoken language, which are essential to clearly conveying both meaning and emotion.
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Archive: UCSF to Develop National Network for Health Data of Sexual, Gender Minorities
UCSF and Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital aim to help address the dearth of medical research addressing sexual or gender minorities through an ambitious national program to collect data that could help to answer the most basic questions about their health.
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Archive: UCSF Cancer Research Ranks Among the World’s Most Impactful, Analysis Shows
UCSF’s Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center is consistently among the world's top five institutions producing the most impactful and utilized research.
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Archive: Talk Therapy with ‘Self-Forgiveness’ Focus Eases PTSD in Vets Who Have Killed
Veterans who have killed in combat and suffer from nightmares, hyper-vigilance to perceived threats, and numbness to people and activities that once made them happy, may be helped by a six-to-eight week talk therapy program.
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Archive: From Threat to Opportunity: Study Shows Cigarette Makers Shifted Stance on Nicotine Patches, Gum
A new study reports that tobacco companies have known for decades that, without counseling, nicotine replacement therapy hardly ever works, and that consumers often use it to complement smoking.
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Archive: A Laughing Matter: SF Comedian Looks to Tell the Stories of Dementia Patients, Caregivers
The Global Brain Health Institute has brought in its first class of Atlantic Fellows. The 32 fellows are taking a range of classes and pursuing projects with the goal of returning to their communities with knowledge and skills to implement changes impacting brain health.
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Archive: California Demand for Primary Care Providers to Exceed Supply by 2030
California is expected to face a statewide shortfall of primary care providers in the next 15 years.
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Archive: Approval of Medical Device Changes Often Based on Low-Quality Research
Clinical trials that test changes in the design or use of high-risk medical devices are often poorly designed, and can rely on inadequate or potentially biased data.
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Archive: Finding Better Ways to Reduce Serious Drug Side Effects
Two UCSF School of Pharmacy faculty members, whose research and clinical practice have focused on the identification and minimization of side effects, have pinpointed routes for improvement.
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Archive: Deep Sleep Reinforces the Learning of New Motor Skills
The benefits of a good night’s sleep have become widely known, and now neuroscientists at UCSF have discovered that the animal brain reinforces motor skills during deep sleep.
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Archive: Sleep Disorders Linked to Preterm Birth in Large California Study
Pregnant women who are diagnosed with sleep disorders such as sleep apnea and insomnia appear to be at risk of delivering their babies before reaching full term.
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Archive: Hormone Shows Promise as Cognition Enhancer
Scientists at UC San Francisco have found that administering a fragment of the klotho protein to young, aging or impaired mice rapidly improves their cognitive and physical performance.
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Archive: Genetics, Altered Brain Structure Offer Window into Autism Severity
Rare deletions or duplications of about 600 genetic “letters” in a region on chromosome 16 confer a high risk of autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) and other neurodevelopmental conditions.
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Archive: Gut Feeling for Probiotics Benefits May Be Overstated, UCSF Study Shows
A study headed by UCSF researchers fuels the probiotics debate by finding that there is no clear evidence that a supplement of the “friendly” bacteria strain of lactobacillus prevents eczema.
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Archive: Reversing Memory Failure Caused by TBI: 6 Questions for Neuroscientist Susanna Rosi
UCSF neuroscientists answered questions about a molecule that reverses severe memory and learning impairments in mice with traumatic brain injury.
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Archive: Higher Exposure to Flame Retardants in Pregnant Women Leads to Lower IQ in Children
A hazardous class of flame retardant chemicals commonly found in furniture and household products damages children’s intelligence, resulting in loss of IQ points.
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Archive: Gut Viruses Tied to Potentially Deadly Complication of Bone Marrow Transplant
A virus hiding quietly in the gut may trigger the onset of a severe complication known as graft-versus-host disease (GvHD) in patients who receive bone marrow transplants.
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Archive: A New Insight into Parkinson’s Disease Protein
New research by UCSF neuroscientist Robert Edwards has uncovered the role alpha-synuclein plays in the normal brain. The protein has long been implicated in Parkinson’s disease.
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Archive: Research Aims to Shape More Precise Treatments for Depression in Women
Interim Dean Sandra Weiss of the UCSF School of Nursing is leading three major studies aimed at shedding important light on some of the most pressing issues facing American women with depression and the clinicians who treat them.
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What Do Our Genes Have to Do With Sleep?
Ying-Hui Fu, a UCSF professor of neurology and a pioneer in the study of sleep and genetics, explains the science behind strange sleep patterns and shares why shut-eye is more important than you think.
