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Pedro Pinheiro-Chagas - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Check back for status Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
The UCSF Memory and Aging Center (MAC) Co-pilot project is an innovative research initiative aimed at revolutionizing the diagnosis of neurodegenerative diseases (NDD), such as Alzheimer's disease and Frontotemporal dementia, through the integration of advanced Large Language Models (LLMs). This project is particularly significant due to the high prevalence...
Biological & Health Sciences Digital Humanities and Data SciencePedro Pinheiro-Chagas - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated
Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias are neurodegenerative diseases with numbers rapidly increasing and currently no cure. To accurately identify the earliest signs of clinical dementia, there is a critical need for sensitive, low-cost, and high-access cognitive markers in the preclinical phase. Novel cognitive markers can complement biomarker information...
Biological & Health Sciences Digital Humanities and Data SciencePedro Pinheiro-Chagas - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated
Semantic dementia (SD) presents as a unique neurodegenerative disorder with focal atrophy of the anterior temporal lobes (ATLs). It is comprised of a primarily left-lateralized language syndrome and a right-lateralized behavioral disorder. One current challenge in this disease is in accurately identifying the distant brain regions that are...
Biological & Health Sciences Digital Humanities and Data Science