Songbird's Strategy for Changing Its Tune Could Inform Rehab Efforts
UCSF neuroscientists are exploring the way in which songbirds learn to perfect and maintain their song, a model of how one learns — and might relearn — fine motor skills.

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UCSF neuroscientists are exploring the way in which songbirds learn to perfect and maintain their song, a model of how one learns — and might relearn — fine motor skills.
UCSF is voluntarily committing to an ambitious goal for its new medical center at Mission Bay to hire a workforce averaging at least 20 percent San Francisco residents during the first year of the project.
Members of the campus community are invited to attend the panel discussion, which is slated for Tuesday, Feb. 1, from 10 a.m. to noon, in Health Sciences West, room 301 on the UCSF Parnassus campus.
Five basic scientists at UCSF will be awarded the distinction of fellows by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) on February 19.
<p>About 150 of UCSF's leaders gathered at the annual School of Medicine retreat last Friday to brainstorm future directions as academic health centers face reform, reduced budgets and demand for integrated patient care.</p>
UCSF has launched an improved website to better showcase UCSF’s excellence in patient care, research and education and to enable people to more easily find information they need.
Early diagnosis and treatment can make a big difference for patients with schizophrenia. Unfortunately, diagnosis often is delayed for months or years.
Current legal restrictions significantly compromise the clinical effectiveness of advance directives, according to a study by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco.
John Plotts, senior vice chancellor of Finance and Administration, today (January 21) issued an email letter to the UCSF community about the <cite>San Francisco Chronicle</cite> story on incentive pay for some UCSF employees.
A documentary debuting today shows how UCSF researchers are using innovative multidisciplinary treatment strategies for patients living with Parkinson’s disease.
After receiving a number of requests from individual students and student groups, a quiet space meant for personal reflection, meditation and prayer is now available to members of the UCSF community at the Parnassus campus.
Longtime UCSF leader Haile Debas received honors recently as a new health professional center at the Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences will be named after him.
The UCSF community recognized the stellar efforts of a student as well as faculty and staff members at the annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Awards on Jan. 25.
UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann, MD, MPH, was named among the 10 “most powerful women in Silicon Valley” by the San Jose Mercury News.
Carmen Peralta, assistant professor of medicine, was recognized recently for her outstanding work in the field of racial and ethnic differences in kidney disease detection, progression and complications.
The recent opening of the Teaching and Learning Center represents a model of campuswide collaboration and a renewed commitment to fostering interprofessional health education.
UCSF researchers have developed a new approach to decoding the vast information embedded in an organism’s genome, while shedding light on exactly how cells interpret their genetic material to create RNA messages and launch new processes in the cell.
The $1 billion budget gap the University of California faces could constrain the system’s ability to meet the growing demand for a UC education, President Mark Yudof told the Board of Regents today (Jan. 19).
Low blood levels of beta-amyloid 42, a protein-like substance, were associated with the risk of significant cognitive decline within nine years in a group of elders, in a study led by Kristine Yaffe, MD, chief of geriatric psychiatry at the San Francisco VA Medical Center.
UCSF is launching one of the nation’s first inter-professional, team-based simulation learning centers to prepare doctors, nurses, pharmacists and dentists together for the changing health care landscape.
UCSF this week will celebrate the opening of its first interprofessional health educational center, a 22,000-square-foot facility dedicated to team-based learning in a technologically advanced environment.
UCSF researchers have tackled a decade-long scientific conundrum, and their discovery is expected to lead to significant advances in using stem cells to treat genetic diseases before birth.
African Americans, the foreign-born, and the near-poor are more likely to encounter barriers to being treated at a trauma center, according to new research reports by UCSF emergency medicine physician and researcher Renee Hsia, and her colleagues.