How a Team of Brain Detectives Is Cracking the Hardest Cases
A new diagnostic clinic for mysterious nervous-system disorders is giving patients answers they can’t find anywhere else.
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A Cure for Multiple Sclerosis? Scientists Say Within Our Lifetime
A generation ago, a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis was a guarantee of a debilitating disease that would leave the patient wheelchair bound, and worse. Follow UCSF’s role in what some call the golden age of MS research and care.
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A Drug to Slow Alzheimer’s Is Finally Available. How Are Patients Faring?
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Degraded Synapses in the Retina Can Predict the Severity of MS
The disabling effects of multiple sclerosis may be caused in part by damaged connections between neurons, and this can be seen in the eye, UC San Francisco researchers have found. They showed that
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When Depression Meds Don’t Work, This May Help You Turn the Corner
Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a noninvasive in-office procedure. Brief magnetic pulses to the brain induces electrical currents that stimulate nerve cells in specific areas of the brain, providing symptom relief for patients with depression and OCD.
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How Rupa Tuan Turned a Lifetime of Family Lessons into a Teaching Career
This year's Sumner and Hermine Marshall Endowed Last Lecture will be given by Dr. Rupa Lalchandani Tuan. Dr. Tuan will deliver a lecture on the prompt, "If you had but one lecture to give, what would you say?”
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Signs of Multiple Sclerosis Show Up in Blood Years Before Symptoms Appear
UCSF scientists have found a set of autoantibodies that emerge in some MS patients years before symptoms.
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What Makes You Cough When Something Goes Down the Wrong Pipe?
When a mouthful of water goes down the wrong pipe – heading toward a healthy person’s lungs instead of their gut – they start coughing uncontrollably. That’s because their upper airway senses the
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How the Inflamed Brain Becomes Disconnected After A Stroke
Mild brain inflammation destroys arm-like projections of neurons rather than the neurons themselves, but can still cause significant brain damage.
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UCSF Grad Slam: This is Your Brain on Your Mother Tongue
Ten UCSF graduate students presented their research in accessible, 3-minute talks at the 2024 Grad Slam event. This year’s first-place talk was by Ilina Bhaya-Grossman on how our brains make meaning out of groups of vowels, consonants and pauses in our native tongues to recognize words.
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UCSF Scientists Build a Molecular ‘GPS’ to Guide Cell Therapies
UCSF scientists have been awarded more than $30 million to develop “tissue GPS,” a new system using engineered T cells to guide therapies directly to their targets in the brain to treat neurological diseases like cancer, multiple sclerosis and Alzheimer’s.
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App May Pave Way to Treatments for No. 1 Dementia in Under-60s
A smartphone app could enable greater participation in clinical trials for people with frontotemporal dementia (FTD), a devastating neurological disorder that often manifests in mid-life.
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Active Social Lives Help Dementia Patients, Caregivers Thrive
People with dementia and those who care for them should be screened for loneliness, so providers can find ways to keep them socially connected.
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Allen Institute Joins Weill Neurohub
The Allen Institute is the newest member of the Weill Neurohub, a collaborative research network advancing treatments for neurological diseases.
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Researchers Are Using AI to Find New Alzheimer’s Risk Factors
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UCSF Health Expands Network of Care with 2 Hawaii Hospitals
UCSF Health is expanding its collaboration with two hospitals in Hawaii, Hawai’i Pacific Health and Hilo Medical Center, to support a $150 million gift from Lynne and Marc Benioff that aims to increase access to high-quality medical care for Hawaii residents.
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Apparently Healthy, but Diagnosed With Alzheimer’s?
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Could We Assess Autism in Children With a Simple Eye Reflex Test?
UCSF scientists may have discovered a new way to test for autism by measuring how children’s eyes move when they turn their heads.
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To Appreciate Music, the Human Brain Listens and Learns to Predict
Rather than simply hearing a string of notes, the brain is assessing them for patterns and predicting which notes will be next.
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Are Body Temperature and Depression Linked? Science Says, Yes.
People with depression have higher body temperatures, suggesting there could be a mental health benefit to lowering the temperatures of those with depression.
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Is It True That Red Wine Causes Headaches?
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For Some Alzheimer’s Patients, Vision Problems May Be an Early Warning
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Could Bizarre Visual Symptoms Be a Telltale Sign of Alzheimer’s?
Early identification of posterior cortical atrophy (PCA) may have important implications for Alzheimer’s treatment. PCA patients struggle with visual impairments like judging distances, distinguishing between moving and stationary objects and completing tasks like writing and retrieving a dropped item.
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UCSF Researchers Dive Into the Biology of Autism
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Could a Drug Prevent Hearing Loss from Loud Music and Aging?
A newly-discovered gene may explain how humans go deaf both as they age, and in response to loud noise.
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Sleep Disruptions in 30s and 40s Linked to Cognitive Decline a Decade Later, Study Finds
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For Dementia Prevention, Sleep Quality in Midlife Matters More
Quality of sleep, not quantity, may play a part in the development of dementia decades before symptoms start.
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The Road to Rejuvenation
Fortified stem cells. Enhanced memory. A longevity hormone. UCSF researchers are finding out whether we can cancel – or at least delay – old age.
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How Proteins Interact May Hold Key to Future Autism Treatments
A new collaborative approach has begun revealing, in detail, how a set of around 100 autism spectrum disorder genes may lead to serious developmental problems. The technique involves looking beyond genes and their mutations, to the proteins they code for.
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Scientists Examine Brain Cells That Control How Much Mice Eat