Alzheimer's Research

People who experience sleep apnea may be more likely to also have memory or thinking problems, according to a preliminary study released today, March 3, 2024, that will be presented at the American Academy...

We are thrilled to introduce Alyssa Kirsch, MD, our most recent faculty hire in our Zuckerberg San Francisco General (ZSFG) division. Having completed her abdominal imaging and ultrasound fellowship at the...

World Health Organization. Dementia. https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/dementia Accessed 30 September 2022, (2022).Ahmed, M. R. et al. Neuroimaging and machine learning for dementia diagnosis: recent advancements and future prospects. IEEE Rev. Biomed. Eng. 12, 19–33 (2018).Article  ...

The human brain has the extraordinary ability to rapidly discern a stranger from someone familiar, even as it can simultaneously remember details about someone across decades of encounters. Now, in mouse studies, scientists at...

Nichols, E. et al. Global, regional, and national burden of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016. Lancet Neurol. 18, 88–106 (2019).Article  ...

Researchers at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) reveal that the Snhg11 gene is critical for the function and formation of neurons in the hippocampus. Experiments with mice and human tissues revealed the gene...

The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging is pleased to welcome Kambiz Nael, MD, to the Neuroradiology division as Professor In Residence. Dr. Nael has a...

When people lack visual imagination, this is known as aphantasia. Researchers from the University Hospital Bonn (UKB), the University of Bonn and the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) investigated how the lack of...

The present study aimed to evaluate the test performance of the VST for the risk of future dementia development in comparison to established dementia screening tests, the HVLT and the SF-EMSE. The results of...

A new UCLA Health study found Kundalini yoga provided several benefits to cognition and memory for older women at risk of developing Alzheimer's disease including restoring neural pathways, preventing brain matter decline and reversing...