UCSF Neurosurgery
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Department of Neurological Surgery @UCSF. We focus on providing the best possible care for our patients, alongside research efforts to develop better treatments
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https://neurosurgery.ucsf.edu/ 06-09-2017 19:56:55
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📺: Learn everything you need to know about a #dihydroergotamine (#DHE) infusion, a #migraine treatment requiring a short stay in the hospital. Watch here: ucsfbenioffchildrens.org/clinics/headac… UCSF Neurosurgery UCSF Benioff SF
Adaptive deep brain stimulation adjusts the electrical stimulation in response to a patient's individual #Parkinsons symptoms. More from Pam Belluck The New York Times on how this approach helped a former pro skateboarder: nytimes.com/2024/08/19/hea… UC San Francisco Simon Little Carina Oehrn Stephanie Cernera
People with brain cancer often experience cognitive symptoms that affect their quality of life. SundasHashmi writes about her perspective living with these challenges and National Brain Tumor Society's new Quality of Life research agenda: wapo.st/4dlX4XS #btsm John de Groot, MD UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Ctr
In a new frontier for #DeepBrainStimulation, UC San Francisco #neurosurgeon Philip A. Starr, MD, PhD, and other researchers used AI to develop individualized algorithms, which helped skateboarder Shawn Connolly and other patients with Parkinson’s disease. Read more via @NYTimes this
1 million Americans have Parkinson’s disease. UCSF researchers are developing a new treatment, adaptive deep brain stimulation, that tunes into a patient’s brain signals and adjusts therapy as PD symptoms rise and fall. tiny.ucsf.edu/UFW7rX Simon Little UCSF Neurosurgery
"Having good posture minimizes the amount of stress on all your muscles by decreasing the amount of work they have to do," says UCSF Health spine surgeon Praveen Mummaneni, MD. Read more in National Geographic on the health benefits of maintaining proper posture: nationalgeographic.com/science/articl…
.UCSF School of Medicine student Mulki Mehari, UCSF Health neurosurgeon Shawn Hervey-Jumper & colleagues call for centering #HealthEquity in emerging applications of #AI. Read their consensus review, which proposes a new framework to guide researchers: academic.oup.com/neuro-oncology… #NeuroJournal
Honored to play a small part in this highly collaborative process. UCSF Neurosurgery UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Ctr UC San Francisco
Delighted to share single-cell and spatial genomic insights into meningeal SFTs from Kanish Mirchia (who functions on a different level, but not on this platform). Collaboration with Elizabeth Crouch, MD/PhD and Aparna Bhaduri ! UCSF Neurosurgery UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Ctr UC San Francisco pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39207122/
Great catching up with Pavithra Viswanath UCSF Neurosurgery at the #AARN2024 American Brain Tumor Association meeting; talking about our collaboration that started at this meeting last year - Juyeun Lee