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Stephen Hauser Wins Breakthrough Prize for Role in Redefining MS
Neuro-immunologist Stephen Hauser, MD, whose maverick thinking transformed the treatment landscape for patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), has received the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences.
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UCSF Stroke Clinic
The stroke clinic provides expert consultations and outpatient care to patients who are at risk of a stroke or have had a stroke due to neurovascular conditions.
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This New Treatment Can Adjust to Parkinson's Symptoms in Real Time
People with Parkinson’s disease have a new treatment option, thanks to U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval of groundbreaking new technology.
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How a Paralyzed Man Moved a Robotic Arm Using a Brain-Computer Interface
Researchers at UC San Francisco have enabled a man who is paralyzed to control a robotic arm that receives signals from his brain via a computer.
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Enhancing MRI with AI to Improve Diagnosis of Brain Disorders
At the intersection of AI and medical science, there is growing interest in using machine learning to enhance imaging data captured by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technology.
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Acute Stroke Transfer Guide for Providers
Information resources for Acute Stroke Transfer Guide for Providers.
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Lo-Res to Hi-Res, A Better way to Pinpoint Where Seizures Begin
For most people with epilepsy, seizures can be controlled with anti-seizure medications. But for about a third of epilepsy patients, medications fail to halt their seizures and surgery may be necessary to remove or disconnect damaged brain tissue responsible for causing seizures.
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Delayed REM Sleep Could Be an Early Sign of Alzheimer’s
Scientists have recently shown that both the quality and the amount of sleep we get may influence our risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease.
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Poor Sleep in Midlife Is Linked to Faster Brain Atrophy
For adults in midlife, difficulty getting to sleep and waking up too early may accelerate brain atrophy that is associated with dementia.
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Neuromuscular Clinic Referral Guide
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Primary Care Predicaments: Myopathies, Neuropathies & Neuromuscular Conditions, Oh My!
From ALS to myasthenia gravis to Guillain-Barré syndrome, potentially aggressive neuromuscular disorders can present with a range of nebulous symptoms.
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New Discovery Reveals Pathway to Modulate Scarring in Spinal Cord Injury
After a spinal cord injury, nearby cells quickly rush to action, forming protective scar tissue around the damaged area to stabilize and protect it
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Forecasting May Help People with Epilepsy Predict Their Seizures
UCSF team discovers brain activity patterns that foreshadow seizures up to 24 hours before they occur.
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ER Visit Leads to Moyamoya Disease Diagnosis and Personalized Treatment Plan: UCSF Case Study
A 47-year-old woman came to the UCSF emergency department with acute slurred speech along with left-sided facial droop and left-sided numbness, suggesting a stroke. Vessel imaging showed bilateral obstructive arteriopathy, an indication of moyamoya disease.
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Inpatient Infusion Therapy for Refractory Headaches: UCSF Case Study
The first center of its kind on the West Coast, the UCSF Headache Center provides patients with comprehensive care to relieve the most debilitating headaches. This includes inpatient treatment for people with severe unremitting or recurring headaches for whom first-line therapies have failed.
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Life-Changing Care for Untreated Spinal Muscular Atrophy: UCSF Case Study
An adult man with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) had been born with limb weakness that progressed to respiratory muscle weakness. Though able to sit independently since childhood, he was never able to walk. Due to the high cost of medication in his home country, he was unable to receive treatment, so he moved to the United States at age 36 to seek therapy for his SMA.
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Improving Measurement of Parkinson’s Disease Severity with AI
Despite recent advancements in the treatment of Parkinson’s Disease, it remains a challenge to accurately measure the progression of symptoms in this neurological disorder.
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Interdisciplinary Vasculopathy Care
The UCSF Vasculopathy Clinic provides comprehensive, interdisciplinary care for patients with moyamoya disease, atherosclerosis and other conditions that cause intracranial vasculopathy.
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Signs of Multiple Sclerosis Show Up in Blood Years Before Symptoms
In a discovery that could hasten treatment for patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), UC San Francisco scientists have discovered a harbinger in the blood of some people who later went on to develop the disease.
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New Predictive MS Blood Test May Help Prevent Disability Worsening
Patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) whose blood tests reveal elevated neurofilament light chain (NfL), a biomarker of nerve damage, are at risk of experiencing disability worsening one to two years later, according to a new study spearheaded by UCSF researchers.
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New Alzheimer’s Trial to Combine Anti-Amyloid and Anti-Tau Therapies to Arrest Disease Progression
A new study will combine an Alzheimer’s medication that slows disease progression in some patients with two drugs that target disease-driving proteins to see whether their effects can be amplified.
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Why Has Progress in the Treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease Taken 30 Years?
UCSF expert examines the past and future of clinical trials for Alzheimer’s Disease.
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Telehealth Referral Leads to Diagnosis and Effective Treatment of Rare Neuropathy: Case Study
A 68-year-old man from Hawaii with acetylcholine receptor (AChR) antibody–positive myasthenia gravis and poorly controlled type 2 diabetes complicated by neuropathy had been receiving intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIg) and taking pyridostigmine for two years when ...
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Center for Encephalitis and Meningitis
The UCSF Center for Encephalitis and Meningitis provides comprehensive services to diagnose and treat patients with challenging neuroinflammatory disorders.
