In vivo measures of tau burden are associated with atrophy in early Braak stage medial...
Fig. 2T-statistic map of partial correlation between tau burden and local thickness in the MTL cortical ribbon, with time between MRI and PET scans and age as covariates. Significant clusters after family-wise error rate correction...
October 27: Will You Walk? UCSF Radiology Supports the Breast Care Programs at ZSFG...
On Sunday, October 27, 2019, a team from UCSF Radiology will walk in support of breast care programs at Zuckerberg San Francisco General (ZSFG). This is the second annual Nova12SF...
Discovery and validation of plasma proteomic biomarkers relating to brain amyloid burden by SOMAscan...
Jump to Section1. Introduction2. Methods 2.1. Participants: EMIF-AD Multimodal Biomarker Discovery study 2.2. SOMAscan assay 2.3. Statistical analysis 2.4. Machine learning 2.5. Mendelian randomization3. Results 3.1. Subject demographics 3.2. Proteins significantly associated with amyloid Z-score in both groups 3.3. Multiprotein classifier of...
MCI-to-normal reversion using neuropsychological criteria in the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative
Fig. 1Baseline to year 1 change in neuropsychological scores by group. Error bars represent the 99% confidence interval. For TMT parts A and B, lower scores represent better (faster) performance. Raw scores have been adjusted...
A Comparison of Electronic and Paper Versions of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment
Objective:
The objective of this study was to investigate older adults’ performance on the paper and electronic Montreal Cognitive Assessment (eMoCA).
Design:
Repeated measures and correlational design.
Participants:
A convenience sample of 40 adults over 65...
Large, Multi-Center Study Assesses the Amount of Advanced Imaging Occurring During Pregnancy
The use of medical imaging in the United States has increased a lot over the last two decades, and imaging rates during pregnancy have not been quantified in a large,...
Longitudinal analysis of dementia diagnosis and specialty care among racially diverse Medicare beneficiaries
Fig. 3Percent of Medicare beneficiaries with Alzheimer's disease diagnosis, non-Alzheimer's disease diagnosis, and unspecified dementia diagnosis one to five years after diagnosis, by physician specialty. Sample is 226,604 (34,920 +191,684 diagnosed by specialist and nonspecialist, respectively)...
Screen time: studying gene function in iPSCs
Screen time: studying gene function in iPSCs
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Impaired mitochondrial calcium efflux contributes to disease progression in models of Alzheimer’s disease
Neuronal-specific NCLX knockout 3xTg-AD mutant mouseNCLX floxed mice were generated by our lab22 by acquiring targeted ES cells generated by recombinant insertion of a knockout-1st mutant construct containing loxP sites flanking exons 5–7 of...
#WIMMonth 2019: Celebrating Women in Medicine
The theme for this year's Women in Medicine Month (#WIMmonth) is "Women in Medicine: Trailblazers, Advocates, Leaders." This annual initiative, sponsored by the American Medical Association (AMA), gives the UC...