University of California San Francisco
<p>Feng-Yen Li, a PhD candidate in biomedical sciences at UCSF, is among 13 graduate students from throughout North America chosen to receive the 2012 Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award.</p>
With no specific clinical preventive care guidelines targeting young adults, health care providers are missing key opportunities to improve the health of this population through preventive screening and intervention.
<p>Adam Gazzaley, a neurologist and director of the UCSF Neuroscience Imaging Center, will be featured in a PBS-sponsored program, “The Distracted Mind with [UCSF’s] Dr. Adam Gazzaley,” that airs on KQED PLUS (channel 10 on Comcast) on Sunday, March 4 at 10 a.m.</p>
David Rachleff is Curriculum Coordinator at the UCSF School of Medicine, where he works with the medical students and faculty who are directly connected to the University's advancing health worldwide mission.
A drug once taken by people with HIV/AIDS, but long ago shelved after newer, modern antiretroviral therapies became available, has now shed light on how the human body uses its natural immunity to fight the virus — work that could help uncover new targets for drugs.
<p>UCSF’s efforts to harness and understand the impact of music therapy on the brain was featured in a recent PBS <em>NewsHour </em>story on “The Healing Power of Music.”</p>
People with schizophrenia who completed 80 hours of intensive, computerized cognitive training exercises were better able to perform complex tasks that required them to distinguish their internal thoughts from reality.
<p>All faculty and staff are invited to participate in a web chat with UC President Mark Yudof this Friday, March 2.</p>
Neurologist Bruce Miller, MD, director of the UCSF Memory and Aging Center, participated in a roundtable discussion on Alzheimer’s disease and frontotemporal dementia on the "Charlie Rose Show."