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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: 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: 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: Veterans' Dementia Risk Linked to Combat Head Injury, Study Says
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Archive: Brain Trauma Survivor Gives Hope to Others
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Archive: Heart Disease and Stroke Worldwide Tied to National Income
An analysis of heart disease and stroke statistics collected in 192 countries by the World Health Organization (WHO) shows that the relative burden of the two diseases varies widely from country to country and is closely linked to national income, according to researchers at UCSF.
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Archive: UCSF Emerges as a Leader in the Neurohospitalist Movement
<p>Of all the various types of doctors who see patients admitted to hospital wards or emergency departments, neurologists are among those who admit the largest number of patients with the widest variety of conditions, spurring the growth of a new medical speciality known as “neurohospitalists” – neurologists who focus on treating patients exclusively in the hospital.</p>
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Archive: Mapping the Brain with Philip Sabes, PhD
<p>By mapping neurons and neuron circuitry during movement, Sabes’ lab hopes to one day to be able to print this information back into the brain. If feasible, such therapy could offer new hope to stroke victims whose brains are unable to recover on their own.</p>
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Archive: Discovery Suggests Drugs Can Prevent Brain Injuries Common in Premature Babies
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Archive: Study Finds Benefits Of Sleeping On A Hammock
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Archive: In Tiny Worm, Unlocking Secrets of the Brain
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Archive: Experimental Head Trauma Treatment At SF General Offers Hope
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Archive: Wounded Congresswoman Doing Well, Has a Long Way to Go
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Archive: Corte Madera Neurologist, Stricken by Deadly Disease He Studied at UCSF, Focuses on Living Life to the Fullest
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Archive: Beware, a Big Headache Is Coming
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Archive: Keeping Neurons Alive in Parkinson's Patients
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Archive: The Multiple Sclerosis and Vitamin D Link
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Archive: Study: Link of Virus Chronic Fatigue False Alarm
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Archive: New Studies Say XMRV Virus That Was Latest Chronic Fatigue Suspect Probably Was a False Alarm
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Archive: Chronic-Fatigue Paper Called Into Question
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Archive: Scientists Now Doubt Studies Linking Chronic Fatigue Syndrome to Mouse Virus
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Archive: Link Between Low Vitamin D Levels and African-Americans with MS
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Archive: Letter to the Editor: Help for Patients with ALS
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Archive: UCSF's Olney Driven to Publish Clinical Finding Even as ALS Takes its Toll
<p>Richard K. Olney, MD, the founding director of the ALS Treatment and Research Center at UCSF and a pioneer in ALS clinical research, pushes to complete a clinical research paper, even as he nears the end of his own struggle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).</p>
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Archive: Stem Cell Discoveries Pace Growing Understanding of Human Brain's Uniqueness
<p>Scientists are making great strides in figuring out how the human brain develops, which are leading to novel ideas about the causes of a range of brain disorders, and are raising hopes for the regeneration of tissue that is lost in diseases such as Alzheimer’s. </p>
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Archive: Dr. Richard Olney in Last Stages, Study of Disease
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Archive: Study Highlights Male Bias in Animal Studies