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Cartoon illustration depicting the use of AI in deep brain stimulation.

This New Tech Helps Parkinson’s Patients Who Have Trouble Walking

By Melinda Krigel on
UCSF News
Collage showing Debbie Menzies as a child and young adult.

Embracing Life After a Moment of Despair at Golden Gate Bridge

By Suzanne Leigh on
UCSF News
MRI scan showing a meningioma highlighted in orange.

Could This Birth Control Shot Increase Your Risk for Brain Tumor?

By Suzanne Leigh on
UCSF News
The Los Angeles skyline and palm trees below a banner for the 2025 CNS Annual Meeting being held October 11-15, 2025.

UCSF Neurosurgery at 2025 CNS

Side-by-side images of Robin Phillip, one of the women suing Pfizer. The left image shows her during a radiation session to treat her brain tumor.

Is Depo-Provera birth control to blame for this woman’s brain tumor? A lawsuit alleges Pfizer failed to warn of potential risk

By Abigail Brooks and Zinhle Essamuah on
NBC News
UCSF neurosurgeon Shawn Hervey-Jumper, MD, during an awake brain surgery.

How AI is Changing Brain Tumor Surgery

By Alejandra Canales on
UCSF Brain Tumor Center
UCSF neuroscientist Tomasz Nowakowski, PhD, sitting at a bench in his lab wearing a white University of California lab coat.

Tomasz Nowakowski Named Finalist for Prestigious National STEM Award

By Courtney Strasenburgh on
UCSF Broad Stem Cell Center
Close-up of a person holding a DBS device.

From Chronic Pain to Parkinson’s, 4 Ways DBS is Changing Care

UCSF News
A person holding their phone, which shows an X-ray of their skull.

Treating Chronic Pain Is Hard. An Experimental Approach Shows Promise.

The New York Times
Anatomical model of a brain and skull.

Meet the Little Brain Region that Helps You Say What’s on Your Mind

By Robin Marks on
UCSF News