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Archive: UCSF’s Resource Allocation Program (RAP) is Accepting Applications for the Fall 2019 Cycle
This fall, RAP introduces two new funding opportunities for neuroscience researchers, a new award for health services research, and grant supplements to support diversity and inclusion.
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Archive: After 10-Year Search, Scientists Find Second ‘Short Sleep’ Gene
UCSF scientists who identified the only human gene known to promote “natural short sleep” have discovered a second.
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Archive: Scorpion Toxin That Targets ‘Wasabi Receptor’ May Help Solve Mystery of Chronic Pain
Researchers discovered a scorpion toxin that targets the “wasabi receptor,” which they think it can be used as a tool for studying chronic pain and inflammation, and may eventually lead to the development of new kinds of non-opioid pain relievers.
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Archive: Tweaked CRISPR in Neurons Gives Scientists New Power to Probe Brain Diseases
In a paper researchers describe a technique that uses a special version of CRISPR developed at UCSF to systematically alter the activity of genes in human neurons generated from stem cells, the first successful merger of stem cell-derived cell types and CRISPR screening technologies.
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Archive: Molecular Recycling in the Brain May Keep Alzheimer’s at Bay
Scientists identify faulty molecular recycling as potential driver of Alzheimer’s disease.
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Archive: Alzheimer’s Disease Destroys Neurons that Keep Us Awake
UCSF scientists show that Alzheimer’s disease directly attacks brain regions responsible for wakefulness during the day.
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Archive: Team IDs Spoken Words and Phrases in Real Time from Brain’s Speech Signals
UCSF scientists have for the first time decoded spoken words and phrases in real time from the brain signals that control speech.
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Archive: Unraveling the Ethics of New Neurotechnologies
Since 2017, UCSF researchers Winston Chiong and Eddie Chang have led a collaborative neuroethics research project funded by the NIH.
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Archive: Zachary Knight Receives Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
Knight, an associate professor in the Department of Physiology, investigates how the brain senses the needs of the body and then generates specific behaviors to restore physiologic balance – sometimes in surprising ways.
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Archive: Multiple Sclerosis Attacks Brain’s ‘Projection Neurons’
Brain damage associated with MS specifically targets a common class of brain cells called projection neurons
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Archive: Rahul Desikan, Neuroscientist Who Studied Brain Diseases While Fighting His Own, Dies
It was through a cruel twist of fate that, in February 2017, Dr. Desikan was diagnosed with ALS, one of the very diseases that he studied.
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Archive: $25M Gift from Susan and Bill Oberndorf Supports Psychiatry, Translational Research
The Susan and Bill Oberndorf Foundation has made a new commitment of $25 million to UCSF psychiatry and the neurosciences, bringing its total giving to "UCSF: The Campaign" to $50 million.
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Archive: A Decade of Research Sharpens View of Brain Tumor Genetics, Causes
Today, our understanding of glioma subtypes has expanded to include the molecular and genetic variants that can influence a tumor’s development, prognosis, and response to treatment.
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Archive: Global Brain Health Institute Reaches Milestone, Sets Sights on Continued Impact for Brain Health
The commitment reflects the ambitions of Atlantic Philanthropies and its founder, Charles “Chuck” Feeney, to advance fairer, healthier and more inclusive societies.
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Archive: Mood Neurons Mature During Adolescence
A new study suggests that the human brain may maintain reserves of immature neurons throughout life, using these “Peter Pan” cells in a similar manner to the neurogenesis seen in other species
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Archive: Key Gene Mutation in Autism May Alter Brain in Early Years of Life
Unlike other gene mutations linked to autism, which are thought to alter brain development before birth, the newly identified changes in brain signaling may occur closer to the onset of autism symptoms in the first years of life.
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Archive: Targeting the Microbiome Could Improve Parkinson’s Therapy
Research identifies enzymes produced by two different bacterial species that work together to digest L-Dopa in the human gut. Blocking one of these bacterial enzymes could significantly boost the drug’s efficacy in these patients.
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Archive: UCSF Mourns the Loss of Herb Sandler
Sandler was a longtime advocate of UCSF’s basic science and neurosciences research efforts.
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Archive: Algorithm that Tailors Digital Meditation Program Improves Attention and Memory
The intervention, an app called MediTrain, uses a closed-loop algorithm that tailors the length of meditation sessions to the abilities of the participants.
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Archive: Brain Changes in Autism Traced to Specific Cell Types
Changes in gene activity in specific brain cells are associated with the severity of autism in children and young adults with the disorder.
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Archive: These Scientists Want to Redefine Alzheimer's as a 'Double-Prion' Disease
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Archive: To Boldly Go or Anxiously Hang Back?
UCSF research has identified a particular group of nerve cells in the brain that play an important role in anxiety’s influence over behavior.
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Archive: I Have ALS, I wish a polygenic analysis had told me it was coming
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Archive: Synthetic Speech Generated from Brain Recordings
The technology could one day restore the voices of people who have lost the ability to speak due to paralysis and other forms of neurological damage.
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Archive: Scientists Turn Brain Signals Into Speech, May Help People Who Cannot Talk
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Archive: One Day There May Be a Drug to Turbocharge the Brain. Who Should Get It?
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Archive: Had Enough Water? Brain's Thirst Centers Make a Gut Check
New UCSF study may have answered how your brain knows when you’ve had enough water.
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Archive: Blech! Brain Science Explains Why You're Not Thirsty For Salt Water
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Archive: Talk on a Blood Test for Concussions Wins 2019 UCSF Grad Slam
Ten finalists competed in the fifth annual Grad Slam to inform and entertain with three-minute talks based on their own research.