Alzheimer's Research

Congratulations to our 2023 graduates and award recipients. Commencement was held on June 9 at the InterContinental Mark Hopkins in San Francisco with an in-person and virtual ceremony. We were...

The UC San Francisco Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging would like to thank our outstanding radiology residents for their dedication, focus and outstanding work over the past four years. We...

Colony-stimulating factor 1 receptor-related adult-onset leukoencephalopathy is a primary microgliopathy characterized by a complex phenotype, which can be easily misdiagnosed with other leukoencephalopathy and neurodegenerative diseases such as frontotemporal dementia. It is estimated to...

On Wednesday, June 7, the UCSF Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging hosted a delegation of German political leaders and academics from the state of Schleswig-Holstein for the official launch...

In our study, we were able to assess the pattern of AD medications granted by the Brazilian health system in the state of RS. We showed that although these medications are available to all...

Early-onset forms of Alzheimer disease (AD) have been associated with pathogenic variants in the APP, PSEN1, and PSEN2 genes. Mutations in presenilin-1 (PSEN1) account for the majority of cases of autosomal dominant AD. Numerous...

Galateia Kazakia, PhD, and researchers in the Bone Quality Research Lab at UCSF are validating a ‘virtual bone biopsy’ using time-lapse High Resolution peripheral Quantitative Computed Tomography (HR-pQCT) for its...

Kondapa Naidu Bobba, PhD, is first author of "Evaluation of 134Ce/134La as a PET Imaging Theranostic Pair For 225Ac -Radiotherapeutics," a Journal of Nuclear Medicine (JNM) article published May 18 that discusses the development...

This study characterized daytime activity and apathy in patients with behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) and semantic dementia (SD) and their family caregivers. Twenty-two patient-caregiver dyads were enrolled: 13 bvFTD and 9 SD. Data...

Oligomeric tau is present in presynaptic and postsynaptic terminals in post-mortem brains from people with Alzheimer disease (AD), new research published in Neuron shows. The study, led by Tara Spires-Jones and Alberto Lleό, provides...