Algorithm that Tailors Digital Meditation Program Improves Attention and Memory
The intervention, an app called MediTrain, uses a closed-loop algorithm that tailors the length of meditation sessions to the abilities of the participants.
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Give to UCSFThe intervention, an app called MediTrain, uses a closed-loop algorithm that tailors the length of meditation sessions to the abilities of the participants.
The UCSF study examined whether a mobile phone physical activity app combined with brief, in-person counseling increased and maintained levels of physical activity
The UCSF Department of Dermatology is holding its annual free skin cancer screening clinic for the community.
The technology could one day restore the voices of people who have lost the ability to speak due to paralysis and other forms of neurological damage.
The annual event is based on the question: “If you have but one lecture to give, what would you say?”
UC San Francisco cancer biologist Alan Ashworth, PhD, structural biologist Yifan Cheng, PhD, and molecular physiologist Holly Ingraham, PhD, have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and
UC San Francisco is collaborating with the nonprofit Lazarex Cancer Foundation on a three-year study to identify ways to improve cancer clinical trial participation among medically underserved populations, including low-income individuals and racial and ethnic minorities.
It’s been decades since San Francisco was ground zero for the AIDS epidemic, but for one population, it still is.
Researchers at UCSF say Google Translate is trustworthy when translating written medical advice, but there are some caveats.
A program offering group support, acupuncture, mindfulness, massage and gentle exercise may help prevent patients on prescription opioids from spiraling down to drug misuse, overdose and death.
The Vilcek Foundation awards prizes each year to “emerging immigrant artists and scientists who have shown exceptional promise early in their career.”
The first recipient of QBI's Scholarship for Women from Developing Nations in Biosciences returns to Uganda with tools for success.
UCSF researchers programmed a machine-learning algorithm to diagnose early-stage Alzheimer’s disease. The algorithm used PET scans – a common type of brain scan.
The only way to stop violent injury is to reframe it as a disease and a crisis of public health, say UCSF experts.
Violence can become systemic and ignored in underserved communities. UCSF’s Wraparound Project is changing that case by case, helping those who have experienced traumatic violence to reshape their lives through financial relief, housing, trauma recovery, education and employment.
A new study is using electronic health records to guide management of newborn weight loss.
Scientists at UCSF have developed an innovative tool to peer into the secret life of brain. They hope to use the device to learn more about how memories form, and how past experiences influence decisions.
Nearly 25 percent of the LGBT adults aged 50 and older in a new study had subjective cognitive decline, a potential indicator of a future Alzheimer’s diagnosis.
The Quantitative Biosciences Institute attracts investigators on the basis of the tools and techniques they employ, rather than the diseases they study.
Technology is giving UCSF doctors new tools to customize care for patients, and the health care practitioners of the future are learning how to implement the technology through a new course.