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		<title>Hellman Visiting Artist Program Fosters Dialogue About Creativity and the Brain</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 16:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Yollin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bruce Miller MD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deborah Aschheim]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Heidi Clare]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Heidi Clare Lambert, widely acknowledged as one of the best old-time fiddlers currently performing, is the artist in residence in the Hellman Visiting Artist Program at the UCSF Memory and Aging Center.]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Food and Drug Administration Approves Amyvid PET Scans</title>
		<link>http://memory.ucsf.edu/blog/us-food-and-drug-administration-approves-amyvid-pet-scans-543/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 20:44:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>UCSF MAC</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced on Friday, April 6 2012, that it has approved the use of Amyvid™ (florbetapir) PET scans for patients being evaluated for Alzheimer's disease and other causes of cognitive impairment. ]]></description>
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		<title>Alzheimer’s Disease Spreads Through Linked Nerve Cells, Brain Imaging Studies Suggest</title>
		<link>http://memory.ucsf.edu/blog/alzheimer%e2%80%99s-disease-spreads-through-linked-nerve-cells-brain-imaging-studies-suggest-522/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 18:07:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Norris</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[AD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alzheimer's disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[biomarkers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CJD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[frontotemporal dementia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FTD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MRI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William Seeley MD]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia may spread within nerve networks in the brain by moving directly between connected neurons, instead of in other ways proposed by scientists, such as by propagating in all directions, according to researchers who report the finding in the March 22 edition of the journal Neuron.]]></description>
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		<title>Defining a Disease</title>
		<link>http://memory.ucsf.edu/blog/defining-a-disease-539/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 16:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>UCSF MAC</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[AD]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After 13 years, the diagnostic criteria for behavioral variant FTD (bvFTD) were recently updated to include the latest behavioral, imaging and genetic research findings. These new criteria focus on psychiatric and behavioral symptoms such as disinhibition (poor social skills, impulsivity and poor risk assessment), apathy, loss of sympathy or empathy for others, changes in eating habits, new repetitive behaviors and loss of decision making and planning skills.]]></description>
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		<title>Hellman Artist Heidi Clare in the Community</title>
		<link>http://memory.ucsf.edu/blog/hellman-artist-heidi-clare-in-the-community-529/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 16:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>UCSF MAC</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Heidi Clare]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Indre Viskontas PhD]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once a month, Hellman Visiting Artist Heidi Clare leaves Colorado and comes to San Francisco with her fiddle to lead a workshop on music and the mind at UCSF.]]></description>
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		<title>Treating Neurological Disorders With Music Therapy</title>
		<link>http://memory.ucsf.edu/blog/treating-neurological-disorders-with-music-therapy-514/</link>
		<comments>http://memory.ucsf.edu/blog/treating-neurological-disorders-with-music-therapy-514/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2012 22:49:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>News Center</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Artistic Expression]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[UCSF’s efforts to harness and understand the impact of music therapy on the brain was featured in a recent PBS NewsHour story on “The Healing Power of Music.”]]></description>
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		<title>Neurologist Bruce Miller Discusses Alzheimer’s, FTD on Charlie Rose Show</title>
		<link>http://memory.ucsf.edu/blog/neurologist-bruce-miller-discusses-alzheimer%e2%80%99s-ftd-on-charlie-rose-show-506/</link>
		<comments>http://memory.ucsf.edu/blog/neurologist-bruce-miller-discusses-alzheimer%e2%80%99s-ftd-on-charlie-rose-show-506/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 20:09:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>News Center</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alzheimer's disease]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[frontotemporal dementia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Bruce Miller, MD, a behavioral neurologist and director of the UCSF Memory and Aging Center, participated in a roundtable discussion on Alzheimer’s disease and frontotemporal dementia on the "Charlie Rose Show," which aired on Feb. 24, 2012.]]></description>
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		<title>9th Annual Huntington Disease Research Symposium</title>
		<link>http://memory.ucsf.edu/blog/9th-annual-huntington-disease-research-symposium-485/</link>
		<comments>http://memory.ucsf.edu/blog/9th-annual-huntington-disease-research-symposium-485/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 20:32:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>UCSF MAC</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Huntington disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Katherine Possin PhD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Geschwind MD PhD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[neurology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sharon Sha MD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steve Finkbeiner MD PhD]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Our 9th Annual Huntington Disease Research Symposium was another success! With special thanks to Lundbeck, Inc. we were able to host about 120 guests for two sessions of informative talks on the latest advances in laboratory and clinical Huntington disease (HD) research.]]></description>
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		<title>Time is Ripe for Clinical Trials in Frontotemporal Degeneration</title>
		<link>http://memory.ucsf.edu/blog/time-is-ripe-for-clinical-trials-in-frontotemporal-degeneration-474/</link>
		<comments>http://memory.ucsf.edu/blog/time-is-ripe-for-clinical-trials-in-frontotemporal-degeneration-474/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alzheimer Research Forum</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Adam Boxer MD PhD]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As trialists are retooling in the face of disappointing results in Alzheimer’s disease (AD), researchers in frontotemporal degeneration (FTD) are learning from AD woes and gearing up to take a seat in the front row. This year’s 4th International Conference on Clinical Trials in Alzheimer's Disease, (CTAD), held 3-5 November 2011 in San Diego, California, included a session on preparing for treatment trials in FTD.]]></description>
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		<title>Amyloid Imaging Accurately Differentiates AD and FTD</title>
		<link>http://memory.ucsf.edu/blog/amyloid-imaging-accurately-differentiates-ad-and-ftd-456/</link>
		<comments>http://memory.ucsf.edu/blog/amyloid-imaging-accurately-differentiates-ad-and-ftd-456/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>UCSF MAC</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[AD]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[New research shows a marker developed to detect plaque in the brain may help doctors make a more accurate diagnosis between Alzheimer’s and FTD.]]></description>
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