News & Discoveries

March 18, 2024

Cognitive difficulties, shame and the discomfort of family and friends limit opportunities to connect with others. People with dementia and those who care for them should be screened for loneliness, so providers can find ways to keep them socially connected.

March 05, 2024

Collaboration supports one of the state’s largest private philanthropic gifts and helps increase access to care close to home for Hawaii residents. 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.

February 05, 2024

New study may support heat-based treatment to stimulate self-cooling as new treatment. People with depression have higher body temperatures, suggesting there could be a mental health benefit to lowering the temperatures of those with depression.

January 23, 2024

Black and Hispanic patients have higher degrees of disability, UCSF-led study shows. Young Black and Hispanic women with multiple sclerosis fare worse than young white women with the disease. Minority women were more likely to have more advanced disease and faced greater challenges in pregnancy.

January 22, 2024

UCSF leads first large-scale study to identify the characteristics of underdiagnosed syndrome. 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.

January 08, 2024

Researchers have found a gene that links deafness to cell death in the inner ear in humans – creating new opportunities for averting hearing loss. A newly-discovered gene may explain how humans go deaf both as they age, and in response to loud noise.

January 03, 2024

UCSF-led study shows that tossing and turning may signal cognitive decline years later. Quality of sleep, not quantity, may play a part in the development of dementia decades before symptoms start.

December 19, 2023

Fortified stem cells. Enhanced memory. A longevity hormone. UCSF researchers are finding out whether we can cancel – or at least delay – old age. Fortified stem cells. Enhanced memory. A longevity hormone. UCSF researchers are finding out whether we can cancel – or at least delay – old age.

December 15, 2023

UCSF researchers reveal how some gene mutations lead to autism spectrum disorder. 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.

December 13, 2023
Recordings from hundreds of individual neurons provide a high-resolution picture of the neural mechanisms of communication.

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