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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.
Widely used organoid models fail to replicate even basic features of brain development and organization, much less the complex circuitry needed to model complex brain diseases or normal cognition.
The clinics enable patients to receive UCSF primary, specialty and cancer care in convenient locations close to home.
The affiliation will launch with two clinics, on Divisadero Street and in downtown San Francisco, and is expected to expand quickly into a network throughout the Bay Area.
A low-cost test that screens for excess protein in the urine has been shown to accurately identify patients at higher risk for progressive kidney disease after being hospitalized for acute kidney
Just weeks since the viral illness was first reported in Wuhan, China, health experts globally are working on containing and treating it.To put the latest news in context, we asked UCSF infectious disease expert Charles Chiu, MD, PhD, about the origins of the Wuhan virus and public health risks going forward.
“Society has turned old age into a disease…a condition to be dreaded, disparaged, neglected, and denied,” award-winning author Louise Aronson, MD, told the Bay Area Reporter. In her latest book, Elderhood, Aronson, a UCSF geriatrician, shares stories from her 25 years of caring for patients to weave a different vision – one that, as she puts it, is “full of joy, wonder, frustration, outrage, and hope.”
How will the gene-editing tool CRISPR change our relationship with nature? Will it affect human evolution? This documentary explores these questions through interviews with the pioneering scientists who discovered CRISPR, the families whose lives are altered by this new technology, and the bioengineers who are testing it. UCSF alumna Sarah Goodwin, who earned her PhD in cell biology, is the leading science adviser on the film, as well as a producer.
This NPR piece follows an unusual “pain rescue team” dedicated to easing the suffering of seriously ill kids in severe pain. The episode delves into the wrenching but powerful work of UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital San Francisco’s integrative pediatric pain and palliative care team, which combines traditional pharmaceutical pain care with techniques such as acupuncture and massage. The program is one of just a handful of such teams in the nation.
For 15 years, nobody could figure out what was making a young woman so sick. Then neurologist Michael Wilson, MD, tried a radical new test.
Researchers found that when default settings, showing a preset number of opioid pills, were modified downward, physicians prescribed fewer pills. Fewer pills could improve prescription practices and protect patients from developing opioid addictions.
