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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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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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Gene Therapy Is Halting Cancer. Can It Work Against Brain Tumors?
Approximately 12,000 Americans are diagnosed each year with glioblastoma. Patients survive on average for just 15 months after their diagnosis, and new treatments are urgently needed.
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Focused Ultrasound Technology May Overcome Barrier to Brain Tumor Treatments
The blood-brain barrier protects the brain from many viruses, bacteria, and other harmful small molecules that could be circulating throughout the body. However, this same barrier prevents many cancer therapies from reaching brain tumors.
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Neuroendovascular Surgery
The newly formed Neuroendovascular Surgery program at UCSF offers accessible, coordinated care for even the most complex vascular disorders of the central nervous system.
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Focused Ultrasound Stops Tremors in Patients with Movement Disorders: UCSF Case Studies
High-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) is an incision-free, minimally invasive outpatient procedure during which MRI-guided ultrasound is directed at the ventral intermediate (VIM) nucleus of the thalamus.
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Scientists Discover a Deadly Brain Cancer’s Hidden Weakness
The difficult-to-treat brain cancer glioblastoma steals a person’s mental faculties as it spreads, yet the tumor’s insidious ability to infiltrate distant networks in the brain could also prove its undoing.
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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.
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Minimally Invasive LITT Effective for Recurrent Glioblastoma: A UCSF Case Study
A 65-year-old woman with a small focal recurrence of glioblastoma was treated with laser interstitial thermal therapy (LITT) at UCSF nearly five years after her first tumor resection surgery.
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Drug Targeting Tauopathies in Mice Reveals Sex Differences in Response
Microglia are cells that are central to both brain health as well as disease progression in many neurological conditions.
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UCSF Laser Interstitial Thermal Therapy
UCSF Laser Interstitial Thermal Therapy
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Aggressive Surgery Increases Survival with Low-Grade Brain Tumors
UCSF-Led study shows extensive resection results in longer survival for glioma patients
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Cerebral Cavernous Malformation Treatments Relieve Disparate Symptoms
Two patients with severe yet different neurological symptoms were referred to UCSF for emergent neurosurgical evaluation. Both were found to have previously undiagnosed cerebral cavernous malformations (CCMs), but each patient’s treatment was unique.
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First “Neuroprosthesis” Expands Vocabulary and Mobility for Man With Paralysis in New Milestone
The first “neuroprosthesis,” developed by UCSF researchers in 2021, translates brain signals from a man with severe paralysis directly into words that appear as text on a screen. Using this brain-machine interface, he can also move a robotic arm to manipulate objects.
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Cerebrovascular Neurosurgery
As one of the highest volume and most experienced surgical programs in the nation for cerebrovascular disorders, we offer a wide range of treatment options tailored to each patient, leading to safer surgeries and better outcomes.
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Genomic Sequencing Is Changing Diagnosis, Treatment for Patients with Brain Cancer
Patients diagnosed with a type of brain tumor survived for longer when they were treated aggressively with surgery, radiation and chemotherapy.
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Seizures Stopped, Speech Preserved After Rare Auditory Cortex Tumor is Removed: A UCSF Case Study
The extraordinary success was made possible through research on the neural mechanisms of speech by Edward Chang, MD, UCSF neurosurgeon and chair of the Department of Neurological Surgery, and an advanced phase 2 surgical evaluation by the UCSF Epilepsy Center team.
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Positive Patient Outcomes With Minimally Invasive Skull Base Surgery: UCSF Case Studies
The following case studies describe how Ezequiel (Eze) Goldschmidt, MD, PhD, and the UCSF Brain Tumor Center team used the EEA to successfully remove different types of tumors, including a pituitary adenoma, a craniopharyngioma, an epidermoid cyst and a chondrosarcoma.
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Deep Brain Stimulation for Medication-Resistant Dystonia: A UCSF Case Study
A 10-year-old boy developed left-foot inversion, which made it difficult for him to walk. He subsequently developed a tremor in his right arm, and then his neck and trunk began to twist. He was seen by several practitioners but did not get a correct diagnosis. At age 17, he was referred to the UCSF Movement Disorders and Neuromodulation Center.
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Endoscopic Removal of a Giant Pituitary Adenoma: A UCSF Case Study
A patient’s giant pituitary adenoma was successfully removed at UC San Francisco via endoscopic transsphenoidal surgery, a technique that offers exceptional visualization.
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Patients with Intractable Headaches Find Relief at the UCSF Inpatient Headache Unit
UCSF Inpatient Headache Unit treats patients with headache disorders through intravenous infusions of medications such as dihydroergotamine, chlorpromazine and valproate. Patients experiencing frequent and severe migraine, cluster, post-traumatic and other headaches have had their pain alleviated through this service, which is offered by the UCSF Headache Center.
