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Give to UCSFUCSF researchers are exploring whether less diverse or unbalanced microbiome early in life can have lasting effects on a child’s reactions to stress or their risk for depression.
Changes in gene activity in specific brain cells are associated with the severity of autism in children and young adults with the disorder.
Researchers have found a way to teach a computer to precisely detect one of the hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease in human brain tissue.
The legalization of recreational marijuana is associated with an increase in its abuse, injury due to overdoses, and car accidents, but does not significantly change health care use overall.
Chuang and Keiser have shown how machine learning could lead scientists astray and how scientists might, in the future, avoid some of the pitfalls of training computers to be scientists.
The new PCORI-funded project's primary research goal is to compare the effectiveness of the two models of care in lowering a woman’s risk of preterm birth and reducing symptoms of depression and anxiety.
Adults with lupus who report having had adverse childhood experiences, report higher disease activity, depression and poorer overall health compared to those without such experiences.
Two proteins central to the pathology of Alzheimer’s disease act as prions – spreading through tissue like an infection by forcing normal proteins to adopt the same misfolded shape.
UCSF research has identified a particular group of nerve cells in the brain that play an important role in anxiety’s influence over behavior.
The technology could one day restore the voices of people who have lost the ability to speak due to paralysis and other forms of neurological damage.
Newly discovered radiation-resistant stem cells are normally rare and inactive (left), but they take on a major role in muscle repair when regular stem cells are damaged by radiation (right). Credit:
Two UCSF surgeons set out to study the role a hormone plays in obesity and stumbled on a surprising finding.
In the largest analysis to date of narrative medical school evaluations, researchers at UC San Francisco and Brown University have found significant differences in how female and underrepresented