UC San Francisco and the Translational Research Institute for Space Health are co-sponsoring the inaugural Space Health Innovation Conference to advance research and scientific understanding of how space travel impacts health.
Now in its sixth year, the Best Global Universities rankings focus on schools’ academic research and reputation.
Richly Annotated Training Data Vastly Improves Deep Learning Algorithm’s AccuracyAn algorithm developed by scientists at UC San Francisco and UC Berkeley did better than two out of four expert radiologists at finding tiny brain hemorrhages in head scans—an advance that one day may help doctors treat patients with TBI, strokes and aneurysms.
Study is First to Find Clear Signs of Enterovirus in Nervous System of AFM Patients, Strongest Evidence to Date That Disease is ViralResearch team has detected the immunological remnants of a common seasonal virus in spinal fluid from dozens of patients diagnosed with acute flaccid myelitis (AFM). The findings provide the clearest evidence to date that AFM is caused by an enterovirus (EV) that invades and impairs the central nervous system.
UCSF scientists have caught brain circuits in the act of rewiring themselves to change how they respond to sensory input.
The UCSF scientists who identified the two known human genes that promote “natural short sleep” have now discovered a third, and it’s also the first gene that’s ever been shown to prevent the memory deficits that normally accompany sleep deprivation.
The National Institutes of Health has awarded a five-year, multi-investigator research grant expected to total more than $63 million to Mayo Clinic and UC San Francisco, to advance treatments for frontotemporal lobar degeneration.
Brain Maps Allow Individualized Predictions of Frontotemporal Dementia ProgressionScientists used maps of brain connections to predict how brain atrophy would spread in individual patients with frontotemporal dementia, adding to growing evidence that the loss of brain cells associated with dementia spreads via the synaptic connections between established brain networks.
UCSF researchers have received 10 grants from the NIH’s HEAL Initiative, which aims to speed scientific solutions to stem the national opioid public health crisis.
Manipulating Specific Brain Waves in Sleeping Rats Shifts the Balance Between Learning or Forgetting a New SkillDistinct patterns of electrical activity in the sleeping brain may influence whether we remember or forget what we learned the previous day.