UCSF's Cherry Leung, associate professor of community health systems with the UC San Francisco School of Nursing, researches the gut-brain axis as a potential adjunct therapy for improving adolescent mental health.
Freeze-dried human platelets could be used as a "molecular tourniquet" for brain bleeds in the minutes to hours after a traumatic brain injury, according to a UCSF team led by Shibani Pati. The scientists envision stocking ambulances and EDs with the product.
Rajiv Sethi, MD, PhD, has been appointed chief of the UCSF Division of Orthopaedic Spine Surgery, one of the nation’s premier spine programs. He has also been named co-director of the UCSF Spine Center and UCSF system medical director of Value-Based Musculoskeletal Initiatives. He assumed his new…
Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds tells the story of how algal blooms can affect wildlife and human health, and explains why real UCSF scientists are working to track them. UCSF researchers are studying how climate change fuels toxic algal blooms, partnering with global and tribal communities to…
Inflammation caused by the disease damages DNA in neurons that are essential to higher thinking. Researchers discover that the nerve cells that make us uniquely human are also uniquely vulnerable to dying during the waves of inflammation that occur in multiple sclerosis.
UCSF researchers map the way immune cells in the gut communicate with the brain after a parasitic worm infection. A new study traces the molecular pathway connecting the gut immune system to the brain during a parasitic infection, explaining how the immune system triggers a loss of appetite.
A machine-learning model measures brain wave activity to calculate ‘brain age’ and relative dementia risk. Poor sleep is associated with an increased risk for dementia, but many sleep studies have had inconsistent results. For the first time, used AI to analyze tiny electrical signals in the brain…
The Joint Commission recognized UCSF Health for exceptional quality, safety, and coordinated spine care. UCSF’s neurological surgery and orthopaedic surgery departments have earned the Joint Commission’s Advanced Certification in Spine Surgery. UCSF Health is one of only five hospitals in…
New findings help clinicians avoid over-interpretation of misfolding tau proteins and improve how scans are used for diagnosis and prognosis. Tau proteins play an important role in our normal brain function, mainly by helping to stabilize neurons in the brain. But in Alzheimer’s disease, tau…
