Alzheimer's Research

American Psychiatric Association. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Fifth Edition. American Psychiatric Association; 2013. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.books.9780890425596.Ismail, Z. et al. Neuropsychiatric symptoms as early manifestations of emergent dementia: Provisional diagnostic criteria for mild behavioral...

The National Institute of Health’s (NIH) National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) awards diversity supplements to increase diversity in the research workforce by providing training, mentorship and...

UCSF Medical Center’s sonographers have been very hard at work. The department encourages staff to obtain additional certifications to enhance patient care and several have succeeded in becoming Registered Musculoskeletal...

Current residents and fellows connected with alumni at the Margulis Society Career Evening on September 28, 2023, for an informative discussion on radiology careers moderated by departmental alumnus Erik Gaensler,...

Children who are too short for their age can suffer reduced cognitive ability arising from differences in brain function as early as six months of age, according to new research from the University of...

Corticobasal syndrome is a clinical entity characterized by asymmetric akinetic rigidity and a variety of higher cortical dysfunction. Predicting background pathology of corticobasal syndrome is rather challenging; however, clinical and neuroimaging findings may provide...

Masters, C. L. et al. Alzheimer’s disease. Nat. Rev. Dis. Prim. 1, 15056 (2015).Article  PubMed  ...

During October 3-5, UCSF held the Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Novel Imaging Methods Conference Showcasing Hyperpolarized C-13, Midfield, and Information Commons during which the Center for Intelligent Imaging (ci2)...

For the first time, a Cornell University-led study in rats teases apart the role of the hippocampus in two functions of memory -- one that remembers associations between time, place and what one did,...

United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs. World Population Ageing 2020 Highlights: Living arrangements of older persons. https://www.un.org/development/desa/pd/sites/www.un.org.development.desa.pd/files/undesa_pd-2020_world_population_ageing_highlights.pdf (2020).Beard, J. R. et al. The World report on ageing and health: a policy framework...