Influences of amyloid-β and tau on white matter neurite alterations in dementia with Lewy...
McKeith, I. G. et al. Diagnosis and management of dementia with Lewy bodies: third report of the DLB consortium. Neurology 65, 1863–1872 (2005).CAS
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Optimal deep brain stimulation sites and networks for stimulation of the fornix in Alzheimer’s...
Winston, W. Economic burden of Alzheimer disease and managed care considerations. Am. J. Manage. Care 26, S177–S183 (2020).Article
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Curiosity supercharges people’s memory for paintings they saw while pretending to be an art...
New research from Duke found that people who imagined being a thief scouting a virtual art museum in preparation for a heist were better at remembering the paintings they saw, compared to people who...
The Efficacy of Nonpharmacological Treatment for Dementia-related Apathy
Objective
To determine the usefulness of a formal, structured, nonpharmacological treatment for apathetic dementia patients.
Patients and Methods
A controlled, cross-over, randomized, simple-blind, multicentre clinical trial. A total of 146 institutionalized or day care dementia...
#UCSFRadGrateful Gives Kudos to Faculty, Staff and Trainees in 2020
As 2020 draws to a close, the UC San Francisco Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging launched a gratitude campaign (#UCSFRadGrateful) posted on our social media from December 14 through...
Deficits in spontaneous and stimulus-dependent retrieval as an early sign of abnormal aging
Prince, J. M. et al. World Alzheimer Report 2015: The Global Impact of Dementia | Alzheimer’s Disease International. World Alzheimer’s Report. https://www.alz.co.uk/research/worldalzheimerreport2015summary.pdf (2015). Accessed 10 Dec 2021.Morris, J. C. Early-stage and preclinical Alzheimer disease....
Functional brain architecture is associated with the rate of tau accumulation in Alzheimer’s disease
Sample characteristicsWe included 81 participants from the ADNI3 study (https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02854033) all with available baseline resting-state fMRI and longitudinal AV1451 tau-PET data. The sample included 28 CN Aβ− as a healthy reference group, and 32...
AI-guided brain stimulation aids memory in traumatic brain injury — ScienceDaily
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) has disabled 1 to 2% of the population, and one of their most common disabilities is problems with short-term memory. Electrical stimulation has emerged as a viable tool to improve...
On the Cusp: Straddling the Emotional & Physical Reality of a Prostate Cancer Diagnosis
A year ago, long-time San Franciscan and hospitality entrepreneur Chip Conley received a shocking diagnosis. While in New York for business, the Joie de Vivre Hospitality founder and Airbnb Strategic...
Sina Houshmand, MD Joins UCSF Radiology Faculty
The UC San Francisco Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging is pleased to announce that Sina Houshmand, MD has joined our faculty as an associate professor of clinical radiology in...
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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...