A UCSF team finds a liver protein, released with exercise, that improves memory in aging and Alzheimer’s disease by repairing the brain’s blood vessels. It's the missing link between exercise and brain rejuvenation that many have been hunting for.
UCSF research upends 100-year-old assumption about Pavlov’s dog and associative learning. How we learn to predict an outcome isn’t determined by how many times a cue and reward happen together. Instead, how much time passes between rewards is also important. Understanding this process has…
In a first-of-its-kind study, UCSF researchers use brain signals recorded at home to identify when patients are walking. For years, scientists have studied how the brain controls movement by asking patients to perform structured tasks while connected to multiple sensors in a lab. While these…
A study from UCSF shows a previously unknown connection between the Epstein-Barr virus, known to play a role in MS, and an understudied type of immune cell.
Researchers found a "garbage man" enzyme that tags toxic clumps of proteins in the brain for removal, and saw a correlation with resilience against dementia.
UCSF’s Renaud La Joie leads Alzheimer’s Association consortium developing treatment framework for Alzheimer’s patients in the era of anti-amyloid therapies. In the last few years, progress has been made in the fight against Alzheimer’s disease with a class of therapies called anti-amyloid…
Matthew Growdon's study finds "prescription cascades" where drug side effects lead to unnecessary second prescriptions, causing further harm and costly hospitalizations.
Two new UCSF studies reveal how the brain learns to divide sentences into words. Scientists have thought that when we hear language, the brain processes it the same way, whether it's familiar or foreign. A new study reveals that exposure to a language changes how certain clusters of neurons…
Scanning the brains of children with sensory processing disorder, scientists see in some a struggle to gain self-control and minimize outside stimulation. New research shows how brain networks differ in neurodiverse children who are and aren't resilient in the face of sensory overload.
