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Brain Aneurysms: What Primary Care Providers Need to Know Video

Brain Aneurysms: What Primary Care Providers Need to Know

This presentation from neurosurgeon Ethan A. Winkler, MD, PhD, offers data-driven guidelines on assessing a patient's risk, covering factors that range from alcohol consumption and family history to the location, size and shape of the aneurysm.
Focused Ultrasound Technology May Overcome Barrier to Brain Tumor Treatments News

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.
Treating Brain Aneurysms: How a Savvy Neurosurgical Team Individualizes Care Video

Treating Brain Aneurysms: How a Savvy Neurosurgical Team Individualizes Care

In this short video, vascular and endovascular surgeon Ethan Winkler, MD, PhD, explains the factors that go into determining the right treatment for different cases involving dangerously bulging blood vessels in the brain.
Neuroendovascular Surgery Document

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.
Advanced Care of Subdural Hematoma in the Elderly: A Look at Embolization Video

Advanced Care of Subdural Hematoma in the Elderly: A Look at Embolization

Neurosurgeon Luis Savastano, MD, PhD, discusses middle meningeal artery embolization, a cutting-edge, outpatient procedure for subdural hematoma.
Focused Ultrasound Stops Tremors in Patients with Movement Disorders: UCSF Case Studies News

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.
Scientists Discover a Deadly Brain Cancer’s Hidden Weakness News

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.
Center for Encephalitis and Meningitis Document

Center for Encephalitis and Meningitis

The UCSF Center for Encephalitis and Meningitis provides comprehensive services to diagnose and treat patients with challenging neuroinflammatory disorders.
Minimally Invasive LITT Effective for Recurrent Glioblastoma: A UCSF Case Study News

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.
Drug Targeting Tauopathies in Mice Reveals Sex Differences in Response News

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.
UCSF Laser Interstitial Thermal Therapy Document

UCSF Laser Interstitial Thermal Therapy

UCSF Laser Interstitial Thermal Therapy
Aggressive Surgery Increases Survival with Low-Grade Brain Tumors News

Aggressive Surgery Increases Survival with Low-Grade Brain Tumors

UCSF-Led study shows extensive resection results in longer survival for glioma patients
Cerebral Cavernous Malformation Treatments Relieve Disparate Symptoms News

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.
First “Neuroprosthesis” Expands Vocabulary and Mobility for Man With Paralysis in New Milestone News

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.
Cerebrovascular Neurosurgery Document

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.
Genomic Sequencing Is Changing Diagnosis, Treatment for Patients with Brain Cancer News

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.
Surgery for Epilepsy: Advanced Techniques and Appropriate Candidates Video

Surgery for Epilepsy: Advanced Techniques and Appropriate Candidates

Many patients with uncontrolled seizures are unaware that they can be helped – and providers have an opportunity to start them toward a better quality of life simply by explaining the latest options.
Seizures Stopped, Speech Preserved After Rare Auditory Cortex Tumor is Removed: A UCSF Case Study News

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.
The Value of Focused Ultrasound for Essential Tremor: Safety, Precision, Sustained Results Video

The Value of Focused Ultrasound for Essential Tremor: Safety, Precision, Sustained Results

The most common movement disorder, essential tremor often doesn’t respond to meds and depresses quality of life. As neurosurgeon Doris Wang, MD, PhD, explains in this short, information-packed presentation, focused ultrasound can bring immediate and lasting relief to many.
Positive Patient Outcomes With Minimally Invasive Skull Base Surgery: UCSF Case Studies News

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.
Deep Brain Stimulation for Medication-Resistant Dystonia: A UCSF Case Study News

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.
Endoscopic Removal of a Giant Pituitary Adenoma: A UCSF Case Study News

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.
Patients with Intractable Headaches Find Relief at the UCSF Inpatient Headache Unit News

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.
Referral Guide for Physicians - Neurology and Neurological Surgery Document

Referral Guide for Physicians - Neurology and Neurological Surgery

Referral and specialty care clinic information provided by UC San Francisco’s departments of Neurology and Neurological Surgery.

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