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UCSF Health and John Muir Health Add Cancer Services to Berkeley Outpatient Center
The Cancer Center, which opened Feb. 3, 2020, is located in the jointly operated Berkeley Outpatient Center.
Brain Tumor Surgery that Pushes Boundaries Boosts Patients Survival
Survival may more than double for adults with glioblastoma, if neurosurgeons remove the surrounding tissue as aggressively as they remove the cancerous core of the tumor.
UCSF Health Response on Novel Coronavirus Outbreak
UCSF, which specializes in the care of patients with complex illnesses, including infectious diseases like the novel coronavirus, also treated patients during past epidemics, such as SARS in 2003.
Tailoring Deep Brain Stimulation to Treat Chronic Pain
UCSF researchers are working on deep-brain stimulation technology that can be customized to the patient’s brain make up and their own brain’s feedback.
Resource Allocation Program is Now Accepting Applications for Spring 2020 Cycle
Serving the UCSF research community, RAP is a campus-wide program that facilitates intramural research funding opportunities offering basic, clinical and translational science research types of grant mechanisms.
Training Nurse Practitioners to Fill the Gap in Mental Health Care
To address a shortage in mental health providers, UCSF, in close collaboration with UC Davis and UCLA, is preparing to launch an online training program for psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioners, which aims to train 300 new mental health providers throughout the state by 2025.
Distinctive Alzheimer’s Symptoms Linked to Damaged Glial Cells
Understanding the biological differences that drive distinct symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease could lead to more personalized patient care and potentially therapies targeted to patients’ individual needs.
Dementia Leaders Gather for Launch of Latin American Research Initiative
Leaders in dementia from Latin America joined community members from the Global Brain Health Institute, Alzheimer’s Association, the Tau Consortium, the National Institute of Health (NIH) and more at UCSF Mission Bay for the US-Latin American Networking on Dementia Symposium. Cohosted by GBHI and the UCSF Memory and Aging Center.
Brain’s ‘GPS System’ Toggles Between Present and Possible Future Paths in Real Time
In a study of rats navigating a simple maze, neuroscientists at UCSF have discovered how the brain may generate such imagined future scenarios. The work provides a new grounding for understanding not only how the brain makes decisions but also how imagination works more broadly, the researchers say.
