Alzheimer's Research

Department of Neurology, Memory and Aging Center, Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USAAdam M. Staffaroni, Hilary W. Heuer, Yann Cobigo, Amy Wolf, Sheng-Yang Matt Goh, Annie L. Clark, Jack Carson Taylor, Amy Wise, Elise Ong, Julio...

We are pleased to announce that Roxanna Juarez, MD, assistant professor in Molecular Imaging & Therapeutics, Yoo Jin Lee, MD, assistant professor in Cardiac & Pulmonary Imaging, and Cynthia Wu, MD, associate professor...

Preclinical study designMouse experimentation and animal care were approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) of the Nathan S. Kline Institute. Ts2 (Stock No. 004850) mice, and wild type breeding partner...

Data collection and ethics declarationsData were collected from the National Health Insurance Service of Korea (NHIS)-Senior database, which included data for 558,147 individuals recruited by a 10% simple random sampling method from a total...

The UC San Francisco Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging is pleased to announce that Javier Villanueva-Meyer, MD has been appointed Vice Chair, Quality and Technology effective September 7, 2022. In...

Radioligand therapy is an emerging technology in which radiation is selectively targeted to tumors using molecular targeting, enabling effective tumor treatment with minimal toxicity in many cases. When paired with...

SampleData were obtained from the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) database (adni.loni.usc.edu). The ADNI project was launched in 2003 as a public–private partnership, led by Principal Investigator Michael W. Weiner, MD. The primary goal...

The memory system alternates between periods of learning and remembering. These two functions are controlled by different neural circuits. Using an animal model, scientists from the Institut Pasteur recently identified a neural signal in...

Boxers and mixed martial arts (MMA) fighters may see some recovery in their thinking and memory skills as well as brain structure after they stop fighting, according to a new study published in the...

Microglia acts as the first line of defense in the central nervous system, constantly scanning for pathogens and abnormalities and releasing small proteins called cytokines to help wade off infections. Previous research has shown...