Alzheimer's Research

UCSF Radiology & Biomedical Imaging strives to ensure patient safety in all our imaging modalities, and this includes providing patients with the highest level of MR safety. MR Safety is overseen by the MR...

arising from: C. Gouveia et al.; Scientific Reports https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-12391-2 (2022).Gouveia and colleagues (2022)1 conducted a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of a polygenic risk score (PRS)-derived phenotype (N = 37,784), in which they identified 246 independent loci...

Background: Intracranial stenosis (ICS) and brain amyloid-beta (Aβ) have been associated with cognition and dementia. We aimed to investigate the association between ICS and brain Aβ and their independent and joint associations with cognition. Methods:...

Background: Compared with monolinguals, bilinguals have a later onset of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer disease symptoms and greater neuropathology at similar cognitive and clinical levels. The present study follows a previous report...

Baseline characteristics of participantsThe male and female ratio was similar across age groups and conditions (Table 1). At baseline, in neither age cohort did the Osc+ and Osc− groups differ significantly in plasma Aβ, plasma...

About ten years ago, soon after she had moved to the United States, Olga Tymofiyeva, PhD,  associate professor in the UCSF Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, watched a lecture...

It's always a good time of year to recognize and celebrate the many women who contribute their talent and expertise to the UC San Francisco Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging. On...

Parnetti, L. et al. CSF and blood biomarkers for Parkinson’s disease. Lancet Neurol. 18, 573–586 (2019).Article  CAS  PubMed  ...

About ten years ago, soon after she had moved to the United States, Olga Tymofiyeva, PhD,  associate professor in the UCSF Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, watched a lecture...

We are delighted to introduce Maggie Chung, MD, who will join our Breast Imaging section on March 6, 2023. Dr. Chung was a trainee at UCSF Radiology since 2018, and a member of...