Dementia-Related Language Symptoms Differ in Italian and English Speakers, Study Finds English and Italian speakers with dementia-related language impairment experience distinct kinds of speech and reading difficulties based on features of their native languages.
Patients Can Influence Outcomes Despite a Genetic Diagnosis, Study SuggestsA physically and mentally active lifestyle confers resilience to frontotemporal dementia, even in people whose genetic profile makes the eventual development of the disease virtually inevitable.
UCSF postdoctoral researcher for the first time succeeded in keeping a diverse array of glioblastomas alive in the lab using brain organoids
Neuroscientist Adam Gazzaley envisions how AI and virtual reality might heal the human mind.Scientists have documented the influence of information overload on attention, perception, memory, decision-making, and emotional regulation. But the same technologies contributing to the cognition crisis could help solve it, argues neuroscientist Adam Gazzaley.
When it does, what will it mean to be human?We are entering an era of brain-machine interfaces and genome-editing technology. When we can govern the very biology that makes us who we are, what will it mean to be human?
Tau PET Brain Imaging Could Launch Precision Medicine Era for Alzheimer’s DiseaseBrain imaging of pathological tau-protein reliably predicts the location of future brain atrophy in Alzheimer’s patients a year or more in advance.
Fenfluramine Reduces Seizures, Is Safe for Patients with Dravet, Study Shows A drug that once helped obese adults lose weight, but was withdrawn from the market due to heart risks, may be safe and effective for children with a life-threatening seizure disorder called Dravet syndrome.
From international awards for high-caliber research to groundswell movements for social change, this past year was an eventful one for the UCSF community.
Neuroscientists discovered how the listening brain scans speech to break it down into syllables. The findings provide for the first time a neural basis for the fundamental atoms of language and insights into our perception of the rhythmic poetry of speech.
Using standard animal model of Down syndrome, scientists were able to correct the learning and memory deficits associated with the condition with drugs that target the body’s response to cellular stresses.