A fitness tracker for brain health: How a headband can identify early signs of...
Researchers from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus and Washington University in St. Louis have identified a way to assess brain activity in sleep that occurs in the earliest stages of Alzheimer's disease,...
The impact of the climate crisis on brain health
Long-term exposure to air pollution is harmful to human health, causing damage to respiratory and cardiovascular systems. A new study provides evidence...
Optogenetic gamma stimulation rescues memory impairments in an Alzheimer’s disease mouse model
AnimalsAll procedures were approved by the McGill University Animal Care Committee and the Canadian Council on Animal Care. Male mice expressing a mutant form of the human amyloid protein precursor bearing both the Swedish...
Findings Validate O-RADS Ultrasound Risk Scoring System Performance
Priyanka Jha, MBBS, associate professor of clinical radiology, recently led a team of investigators who studied the diagnostic performance of the Ovarian-Adnexal Reporting and Data System (O-RADS). They found that...
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The Role of Radiologists in the Diagnosis and Management of HHT
June is HHT Awareness Month, a time to raise awareness of hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT), a genetic disorder affecting the blood vessels. Because HHT is a complex genetic disease that...
Nicholas Fidelman, MD, Steps into Role of Interim Chief of Interventional Radiology
Nicholas Fidelman, MD has graciously agreed to serve as interim chief of Interventional Radiology at the UC San Francisco Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging following the departure of Maureen...
As you look around, mental images bounce between right and left brain — ScienceDaily
Ask anyone from an NFL quarterback scanning the field for open receivers, to an air traffic controller monitoring the positions of planes, to a mom watching her kids run around at the park: We...
Improving Access to Breast Cancer Care in the East Bay
Research has shown that better cancer survival outcomes derive from improvements in prevention, screening, treatment and follow-up care. Also critical is improving access to care, says the American Cancer Society....
Varicose Veins Treatment: A Q&A with UCSF Interventional Radiologists
Varicose veins are common condition involving swollen, twisted veins that you can see just under the surface of the skin. They are often treated with lifestyle changes and medical procedures...
Characterization of lactic acid bacteria derived exopolysaccharides for use as a defined neuroprotective agent...
The identification of the isolates was done via sequencing each one’s 16 S rRNA gene region, resulting in the amplification of a fragment of 1492 bp. The isolates were shown to be lactobacilli and were ≥...
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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...