UCSF Radiology Welcomes Five New Faculty Members
The UC San Francisco Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging is pleased to introduce the five new faculty members joining us on Thursday, September 1, 2022.Please join me in extending...
Cerebral amyloid angiopathy is associated with glymphatic transport reduction and time-delayed solute drainage along...
Pfeifer, L. A., White, L. R., Ross, G. W., Petrovitch, H. & Launer, L. J. Cerebral amyloid angiopathy and cognitive function: the HAAS autopsy study. Neurology 58, 1629–1634 (2002).CAS
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Developing the ATX(N) classification for use across the Alzheimer disease continuum
1.GBD 2016 Dementia Collaborators. Global, regional, and national burden of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016. Lancet Neurol. 18, 88–106 (2019).Article
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Therapeutic games and brain stimulation mitigates cognitive decline in older adults — ScienceDaily
Older people may be able to boost their working memory with a new approach that couples online therapeutic games with a non-invasive brain stimulation technique.
Working memory is critical for people to function well in...
Recognizing the Role of Nurses in the Growth of Radiology Services at UCSF
Nurses Week is celebrated here at UC San Francisco and globally from May 6 through May 12, 2021. Over the past year – and more! – nurses at UCSF Radiology...
Proton pump inhibitors and the risk of Alzheimer’s disease and non-Alzheimer’s dementias
We evaluated the risk of PPI use and the incidence of AD and other types of dementia in a community-based retrospective cohort. We considered at least a five-year lag window between the start of...
BACE1 partial deletion induces synaptic plasticity deficit in adult mice
BACE1 is depleted in adult BACE1 cKO mice following tamoxifen treatmentTo investigate the effects of BACE1 depletion in adult mice we generated a BACE1 cKO model. The Exon2 of BACE1 gene was flanked by...
Interactions between sleep disturbances and Alzheimer’s disease on brain function: a preliminary study combining...
1.Prince, M. W. A., Guerchet M., Ali, G., Wu, Y & Prina M. An analysis of prevalence, incidence, cost & trends. Alzheimer’s Disease International; London: 2015. World Alzheimer Report 2015., Available at, https://www.alz.co.uk/research/WorldAlzheimerReport2015.pdf and...
Was I happy then? Our current feelings can interfere with memories of past well-being...
Many of us spend our lives chasing "happiness," a state of contentment that is more difficult for some to achieve than others. Research in Psychological Science suggests that one reason happiness can seem so...
Predicting conversion to Alzheimer’s disease in individuals with Mild Cognitive Impairment using clinically transferable...
SampleData were obtained from the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) database (adni.loni.usc.edu). The ADNI project was launched in 2003 as a public–private partnership, led by Principal Investigator Michael W. Weiner, MD. The primary goal...
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Take it from the rats: A junk food diet can cause long-term damage to...
A new USC-led study on rats that feasted on a high-fat, sugary diet raises the possibility that a junk food-filled diet in teens may...
Repurposing non-pharmacological interventions for Alzheimer’s disease through link prediction on biomedical literature
The complete workflow is depicted in Fig. 1. To investigate the association between NPIs and AD, we initially conducted preprocessing and integration of biomedical triples...
Degenerative Dementias and Their Medical Care in the Movies
Compared with other neurologic problems, few films have been dedicated to degenerative dementia. To our knowledge, this is the first systematic review about the...