The fellows will study how the experience of pain changes in pregnancy and how Zika affects the developing brain. Two new Pew Latin American fellows, Beatriz De Moraes, PhD, and Lilian Gomes de Oliveira, PhD, will each receive a $30,000 annual stipend for two years to support their work at the crossroads of immunology and neuroscience.
New research shows that an understudied area of the brain transforms our intended words into instructions for speech, overturning 160 years of scientific understanding. Researchers discovered that a different part of the brain handles stringing sounds and words together into coherent sentences. The information could help people who have had strokes and lost the ability to create sentences.
‘US News & World Report’ ranks UCSF Medical Center as No. 1 adult hospital (tied) in California, the best in California for cancer and neurology care, and among the nation’s leaders in 13 specialty areas. UCSF Medical Center has been ranked among the country’s best hospitals in adult care in U.S. News & World Report’s prestigious Best Hospitals survey.
A new study finds FDA approved drugs that reverse the gene expression signatures associated with Alzheimer’s. Scientists at UCSF and Gladstone Institutes have identified cancer drugs that promise to reverse the changes that occur in the brain during Alzheimer’s, potentially slowing or even reversing its symptoms.
Here’s how music may help flex our neurons. An expert in cognitive neuroscience shares the ways that music may help flex our neurons, plus her top tips for a music-filled life.
Scientists are working to rewire the brain’s pain pathways and unlock lasting relief. Scientists are working to rewire the brain’s pain pathways and unlock lasting relief.
Advanced tools offer improved insights into patients’ condition and their potential for recovery. After more than 50 years, the assessment of traumatic brain injuries gets an overhaul. Clinicians say the proposed framework will lead to more accurate diagnoses and treatment, providing more rigorous care for some patients and preventing premature discussions about halting life support in others.
Clues about frontotemporal dementia (FTD), the primary form that strikes in midlife, could finally lead to a way to diagnose it. UCSF researchers have found clues about how frontotemporal dementia develops that could lead to new diagnostics and get more patients into clinical trials.
Neurosurgeon Edward Chang, MD, developmental geneticist Thomas Kornberg, PhD, and virologist Raul Andino-Pavlovsky, PhD, have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), one of the highest honors in American science.
A UCSF pilot study finds psilocybin therapy surprises, showing meaningful improvements in mood, cognition, and motor symptoms. A first-of-its-kind study tested the safety of psilocybin on patients with mild to moderate Parkinson’s disease and found that patients experienced clinically significant improvements in mood, cognition, and motor function that lasted for weeks after the drug was out of their systems.