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Archive: UCSF Neurologist, Marin County Poet Among MacArthur Grant Winners
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Archive: Final Five Go to the Polls in QB3 Science Contest
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Archive: Neuroscience Vs Philosophy: Taking Aim at Free Will
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Archive: Enzyme Might Be Target for Treating Smoking, Alcoholism at Same Time
An enzyme that appears to play a role in controlling the brain's response to nicotine and alcohol in mice might be a promising target for a drug that simultaneously would treat nicotine addiction and alcohol abuse in people.
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Archive: UC Provost Lawrence Pitts to Retire in February 2012
<p>Lawrence Pitts, professor emeritus of neurosurgery at UCSF, will retire in February 2012 after nearly three years as the University of California’s provost and executive vice president-academic affairs.</p>
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Archive: Sidelined: Sports Concussions
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Archive: Vaccine Analysis Further Debunks Autism and Diabetes Links
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Archive: UCSF Searches for Multiple Sclerosis Cure
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Archive: UC-Santa Cruz Chancellor Undergoes Emergency Brain Surgery
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Archive: How My Brain Tumor Woke Me Up To Life
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Archive: Mitchel Berger, UCSF Brain Surgeon, Tops in Nation
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Archive: UCSF Cycling Team 'Menstrual Cycles' Fights Multiple Sclerosis
<p><span class="Apple-style-span">With four members diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS), three of whom are treated at the nation's leading MS Center at UCSF, a cylcing team will participate in the annual ride through the wine country to raise money to fight MS.</span></p>
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Archive: New Shape of Parkinson's Protein
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Archive: Sleep Apnea
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Archive: Consciousness and the Brain
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Archive: Sleep Apnea-Dementia Link Revealed in New Study
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Archive: Common Sleep Problem Raises Dementia Risk
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Archive: Sleep Apnea May Raise Dementia Risk in Women
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Archive: Treatment of Sleep-Disordered Breathing May Prevent Dementia
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Archive: Sleep Apnea Linked to Dementia in Older Women
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Archive: Alzheimer's: No Easy Answers for Aging's 'Defining' Illness
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Archive: Migraine Headaches are Torture
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Archive: New Scorecard Identifies Patients at Highest Risk on Blood Thinners
A new and simple risk score may aid physicians in gauging the likelihood that a common drug will cause a hemorrhagic stroke or other major bleeding in patients with atrial fibrillation, potentially allowing wider but safer use of the effective drug.
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Archive: UCSF Neuro-oncologists Engage Caregivers to Better Help Patients
<p>Seeking to improve care for people with brain tumors, neuro-oncologists at UCSF Medical Center are beginning to look beyond the patient to engage a patient’s family, friends and other caregivers.</p>
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Archive: Healing the Brain, Healing the Mind
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Archive: Do You Obsessively Check Your Smartphone?
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Archive: Grasping for Any Way to Prevent Alzheimer's
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Archive: Camp Bennett Gives Child Stroke Survivors a Boost
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Archive: UCSF Study Highlights Success of Brain Surgery for Severe Epilepsy
Two-thirds of people with severe and otherwise untreatable epilepsy were completely cured of their frequent seizures after undergoing neurosurgery at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center, according to a new study that examined 143 of these patients two years after their operations.