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: 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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Archive: Stress of poverty, racism raise risk of Alzheimer's for African Americans, new research suggests
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Archive: New drug restores memories in brain-damaged mice
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Archive: Drug Reverses Memory Failure Caused by Traumatic Brain Injury
UCSF scientists used an experimental drug to completely reverse severe learning and memory impairments caused by traumatic brain injury in mice.
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Archive: Brain’s Immune Cells May Drive Overeating and Weight Gain
Immune cells in the brain trigger overeating and weight gain in response to diets rich in fat, according to a new study in mice led by researchers from UCSF and the UW Medical Center.
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Archive: Stephen Hauser Wins Taubman Prize for Multiple Sclerosis Discovery
Stephen L. Hauser will receive the 2017 Taubman Prize for Excellence in Translational Medical Research for his paradigm-changing discoveries that paved the way for a highly effective drug for the treatment of multiple sclerosis.
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Archive: Two UCSF Researchers Named 2017 Pew Scholars in the Biomedical Sciences
Anna Molofsky and Shaeri Mukherjee were among the 22 early-career researchers in the 2017 class announced June 15 by The Pew Charitable Trusts.
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Archive: Research Reveals How RNA Gums Up Cell Nucleus in Huntington’s, Other Neurodegenerative Disorders
UCSF researchers have drawn a link between genetic abnormalities in neurodegenerative diseases and the formation of RNA foci, work the scientists said may open avenues to the development of new drug treatments.
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Archive: Jazz improvisation (and other types, too) will change your brain
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Archive: UC Regents Approve Building Plans for 3 Projects in Mission Bay, Dogpatch
The UC Board of Regents have approved plans for three new UCSF building projects, including a new neuroscience building on the Mission Bay campus as well as a new psychiatry building and student housing in the nearby Dogpatch neighborhood.
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Archive: First Clear-Cut Risk Genes for Tourette Disorder Revealed
Researchers made a significant advance, identifying the first “high-confidence” risk gene for Tourette disorder as well as three other probable risk genes.
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Archive: UCSF Neuropsychiatrist Tells Senate Committee NIH Funding is ‘Critical’ for Alzheimer’s Research
UCSF neuropsychiatrist Kristine Yaffe joined former First Lady of California Maria Shriver and other geriatric care experts to testify about the importance of Alzheimer's disease research and prevention at a meeting of the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging.
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Archive: This Video Game Helped Some Kids Overcome Attention Problems
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Archive: UCSF study: Temporary memory loss after surgery may be tied to brain’s immune cells
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Archive: Cognitive Decline After Surgery Tied to Brain’s Own Immune Cells
After undergoing surgery, elderly patients often experience cloudy thinking. Mounting evidence suggests that heightened inflammation in the brain following surgery is the more likely cause.
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Archive: Why Deep Breathing May Keep Us Calm
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Archive: New Multiple Sclerosis Drug, Backed by 40 Years of Research, Could Halt Disease
A newly approved drug that is the first to reflect the current scientific understanding of multiple sclerosis is holding new hope for the hundreds of thousands Americans living with the disease. It also highlights the importance of clinician scientists like UCSF’s Stephen Hauser who are working to transform research into cures for patients.
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Archive: F.D.A. Approves First Drug to Treat Severe Multiple Sclerosis
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Archive: Arturo Alvarez-Buylla Delivers 2017 Faculty Research Lecture in Basic Science
Arturo Alvarez-Buylla was selected by his peers as the recipient of the 60th annual Faculty Research Lectureship in Basic Science
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Archive: Science in Focus: Creating Neurons from Skin Cells to Understand Autism
Studying brain disorders is complicated for many reasons, not the least being the ethics of obtaining living neurons. To overcome that obstacle, UCSF postdoc Aditi Deshpande is starting with skin cells.
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Archive: Your brain fills gaps in your hearing without you realising
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Archive: Study Shows How Skates, Rays and Sharks Sense Electrical Fields
Sharks, rays and skates can hunt for prey hidden in the sandy sea floor by “listening” for faint traces of bioelectricity – they can literally sense their prey’s heart beating.
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Archive: Zebrafish-to-Patient Approach Speeds Search for Childhood Epilepsy Treatments
In an unprecedented leap from lab to patients, a potential treatment for childhood epilepsy identified in experiments with zebrafish.
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Archive: Artificial Intelligence Aids Scientists in Uncovering Hallmarks of Mystery Concussion
New research is paving the way to a precision medicine approach to the diagnosis and treatment of patients with traumatic brain injury.
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Archive: Easily distracted? 3 ways to quiet your mind
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Archive: Human Brain ‘Organoids’ Offer New Insight into Rare Developmental Disease
Research uses brain “organoids” — tiny 3D models of human organs that scientists grow in a dish to study disease — to identify root causes of MDS, a rare genetic disorder that causes fatal brain malformations.
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Archive: 15 UCSF Researchers Named to First Cohort of Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigators
Fifteen UCSF faculty members have been named to the first cohort of Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigators.
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Archive: Lily Jan, Yuh-Nung Jan Win 2017 Vilcek Prize Honoring Contributions of Immigrants
Lily Jan and Yuh-Nung Jan have received the 2017 Vilcek Prize in Biomedical Science, which recognizes extraordinary contributions to biomedical research made by immigrants to America.