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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: Consciousness and the Brain
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Archive: Sleep Apnea
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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.
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Archive: Healthier Lifestyles Could Cut Alzheimer's Cases by 30,000
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Archive: Alzheimer's Disease: Targeting Risk Factors Could Cut Number of Cases
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Archive: Traumatic Brain Injury More Than Doubles Dementia Risk
Patients diagnosed with traumatic brain injury (TBI) had over twice the risk of developing dementia within seven years after diagnosis compared to those without TBI, in a study of more than 280,000 older veterans conducted by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and UCSF.
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Archive: Injuries of Veterans, Football Players Are Linked to Dementia Later in Life
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Archive: Brain Injury Raises Dementia Risk, Study Finds
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Archive: Brain Research at UCSF Aims to Help Distracted Remember
<p>UCSF cognitive neuroscientist Adam Gazzaley has used functional brain imaging and EEG studies to discover that older adults fare worse than younger adults at remembering following distractions. He hopes to improve their performance with cognitive training, using a newly developed video game.</p>
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Archive: Veterans' Dementia Risk Linked to Combat Head Injury, Study Says