Emotionally appealing ads may not always help consumer memory — ScienceDaily
In almost all successful advertising campaigns, an appeal to emotion sparks a call-to-action that motivates viewers to become consumers. But according to research from a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign expert who studies consumer information-processing...
Modular machine learning for Alzheimer’s disease classification from retinal vasculature
1.Fosnacht, A. M. et al. From brain disease to brain health: primary prevention of Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders in a health system using an electronic medical record-based approach. J. Prev. Alzheimer’s Dis. 4(3),...
Delivering the news with humor makes young adults more likely to remember and share...
In the early decades of televised news, Americans turned to the stern faces of newsmen like Walter Cronkite, Tom Brokaw, and Dan Rather as trusted sources for news of the important events in America...
Faculty Mentoring in UCSF Radiology
January is National Mentoring Month. In academic radiology, mentoring benefits both mentees and mentors in a number of ways. Mentors provide support and share knowledge with mentees while helping them...
The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on people with dementia
The COVID-19 pandemic has posed unique risks to people with Alzheimer disease and dementia. Research from 2020 has...
2020 Year in Review: Overcoming Challenges and Celebrating Accomplishments
2020 was historic and challenging! Years from now, we expect that history books will depict and analyze the pandemic and COVID-19, racial reckonings, political unrest and transition. As this history...
UCSF Radiology’s 2021 Annual Review CME Conference to be Hosted Live Online
Virtual continuing medical education (CME) courses provide a flexible, user-friendly way for learners with limited time to follow and comply with COVID-19 travel restrictions, keep up with CME requirements and...
Sex-specific Alzheimer’s treatment could benefit males over females — ScienceDaily
A University of Ottawa study has found a specific Alzheimer's treatment is effective in male and not female mice, providing a window into the biology of the disease and the effectiveness of targeted treatments.
The...
Limbic-predominant Age-related TDP-43 Encephalopathy and Distinct Longitudinal Profiles of Domain-specific Literacy
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Emerging evidence suggests that limbic-predominant age-related TAR DNA-binding protein-43 (TDP-43) encephalopathy impacts domain-specific literacy, a complex ability not assessed in traditional cognitive evaluations. We examined longitudinal profiles of financial and health literacy in...
Micronucleus frequency in buccal mucosa cells of patients with neurodegenerative diseases
MN result either from chromosomal fragments, which indicate DNA strand breaks or chromosome missegregation15 and are associated with a variety of neurological diseases21. We performed the buccal cell MN cytome test in a large...
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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...