A new retrospective study by interventional neuroradiologist, James Tatum, MD, and colleagues at UCSF look at the effectiveness of treating children having stokes with a technique known as "mechanical embolectomy," a standard treatment for stroke in adults.

UCSF has received funding by the National Institutes of Health to study fetal brain development in specific conditions and to correlate fetal MRI findings with neurodevelopmental outcomes.

Preliminary data suggest that when a person has a combination of Alzheimer's disease and progressive supranuclear palsy, that produces a clinical syndrome that is difficult to diagnose, according to a UCSF study.

A seminal UCSF study is probing the biological processes affected by extremely low caloric intake in the first broad examination of the psychological profile of successful extreme dieters gauging how they differ from normal eaters and overeaters. WATCH VIDEO.