Novel study of high-potency cannabis shows some memory effects — ScienceDaily
Even before the pandemic made Zoom ubiquitous, Washington State University researchers were using the video conferencing app to research a type of cannabis that is understudied: the kind people actually use.
For the study, published...
Differential effects of body mass index on domain-specific cognitive outcomes after stroke
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Memory making involves extensive DNA breaking — ScienceDaily
The urgency to remember a dangerous experience requires the brain to make a series of potentially dangerous moves: Neurons and other brain cells snap open their DNA in numerous locations -- more than previously...
Preethi Raghu, MD Discusses “UCSF Emergency and Trauma Imaging,” an Upcoming UCSF Radiology Virtual...
At the UC San Francisco Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, we’ve continued our tradition of offering continuing medical education (CME) courses virtually live and on-demand for self-study to keep...
Dominantly inherited Alzheimer’s disease: a compass for drug development
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Scientists discover a new class of memory cells for remembering faces — ScienceDaily
Scientists have long searched in vain for a class of brain cells that could explain the visceral flash of recognition that we feel when we see a very familiar face, like that of our...
Two separate, large cohorts reveal potential modifiers of age-associated variation in visual reaction time...
Our study’s results illuminate a portion of the intricate relationship between age and RT performance by identifying demographic, health, medical, and lifestyle factors associated with either attenuation or exacerbation of RT lengthening from younger...
A Message from the Chair to Start the 2021-22 Academic Year
It is my great pleasure to welcome you to the new academic year. Whether you are a first-year or returning trainee, a new or longtime faculty, staff member, technologist or...
The reliability and validity of DSM 5 diagnostic criteria for neurocognitive disorder and relationship...
Application of diagnostic criteriaAs shown in Table 2, all diagnostic criteria had good inter-rater reliability, as did clinical judgement. The DSM-5 NCD criteria as a dichotomous variable (NCD or no NCD) had strong inter-rater...
An MD/PhD Collaboration to Apply Hyperpolarized 13 C Metabolic MRI for Assessing Renal Tumor...
Jane Wang, MD and Peder Larson, PhD, faculty members in the UC San Francisco Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging are collaborating on a project applying hyperpolarized (HP) carbon 13...
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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...