We ranked #1 in NIH funding in 2025, marking more than 20 consecutive years as the nation’s top-funded neurosurgery program! 🎉 This achievement reflects our team's commitment to advancing the field & translating those discoveries into new standards of care: neurosurgery.ucsf.edu/news/ucsf-ne... 🧪🧠📈

Super excited to share our new paper: At-home movement state classification using totally implantable cortical-basal ganglia neural interface | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

At-home movement state classification using totally implantable cortical-basal ganglia neural interface

Chronic at-home neural recordings in Parkinson’s disease reveal personalized biomarkers that accurately classify walking state.

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Day 2⃣: February 📅 Dr. Ben Deneen, #BCMNeurosurgery professor and Dr. Russell J. and Marian K. Blattner Chair, #BCMCenterForCancerNeuroscience director and member of the Dan L Duncan Cancer Center, was awarded $1.2 million from CPRIT for pediatric #BrainTumor #research 🧠

🤝 In conjunction with the recent @helloeacr.bsky.social conference on #CancerNeuroscience we have an active call for papers! 📩 Submit your latest Research Article, Short Report or Method in the field of #BrainTumours #CNStumours #NeuroOncology 👉 More details buff.ly/OfzaVDe

A big year for the @changlabucsf.bsky.social at #SfN25! Congratulations to Edward Chang, MD, who was awarded this year’s Gruber Neuroscience Prize, and to @shaileejain.bsky.social, who was named one of @thetransmitter.bsky.social's Rising Stars in Neuroscience. www.thetransmitter.org/early-career...

Neurons help gliomas grow. Discover how in the first #BrainPrize2025 webinar with @michellemonje.bsky.social and Frank Winkler - pioneering insights reshaping brain cancer research. #braincancer #neuroscience #webinar youtu.be/k6Pgbq5IZGI?...

The Neuroscience of Brain Cancers

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Very proud and truly honored to have taken part in this year’s SNO in Hawaii. Inspiring science, outstanding discussions, and my incredible lab pushing the boundaries @milolab.bsky.social Grateful for the beautiful setting that made this meeting unforgettable #SNO2025 #KeynoteSpeaker #NeuroOncology

A huge congratulations to Susan Chang, MD, for receiving the 2025 Lisa DeAngelis Award for Excellence in Neuro-Oncology Education! 🎉🥇The award recognizes her extraordinary impact on training the next generation of brain tumor researchers. #SNO2025 #WFNOS @neuroonc.bsky.social

#NEWS: #BCMNeurosurgery's Dr. Ben Deneen recently received the inaugural Bert O'Malley Award for Outstanding Basic Research at this year's Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center at @bcmhouston.bsky.social annual retreat.

We're looking forward to reconnecting with our colleagues next week at #SNO2025! Check out the full list of presentations from our team of researchers at the UCSF Brain Tumor Center: braintumorcenter.ucsf.edu/news/ucsf-ex... @ucsfcancer.bsky.social @ucsfradonc.bsky.social @neuroonc.bsky.social

New in @nature.com, @labnowakowski.bsky.social uses barcoded lineage tracing to reveal how different cell types in the human brain form, identifying a transition during development when some progenitors shift from making excitatory to inhibitory neurons. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #studyBRAIN 🧠🟦

Venkatesh Lab Fall Outing -- Apple Picking!

On the cover of the Journal of Neurosurgery, UCSF neurosurgeon Edward Chang, MD, PGY6 resident Anthony Lee, MD, PhD & team show that transposition approaches, especially with a pericranium sling, may result in more durable pain control for trigeminal neuralgia: thejns.org/view/journal...

Congratulations to @ucsfhealth.bsky.social neurosurgeon @herveyjumper.bsky.social on receiving the Guha Award from the AANS/CNS Section on Tumors & @neuroonc.bsky.social! 🎉 This award recognizes his lab’s research advances in cancer neuroscience and his dedication to mentoring. #2025CNS #CNSConnects

We’re excited to be in sunny L.A. for #2025CNS! Check out all the incredible work that our faculty, residents, and medical students are doing: neurosurgery.ucsf.edu/news/ucsf-ne... @herveyjumper.bsky.social @ucsfcancer.bsky.social @ucsfhealth.bsky.social #Neurosurgery

How to disconnect therapy-resistant tumor networks in glioblastoma? In our paper, online @Cancer Discovery, we built an anti-tumor microtube (TM) screening pipeline and found that Protein Kinase C activators disrupt TMs, silence Ca²⁺ “pacemakers” and boost radiotherapy. doi.org/10.1158/2159...

I’m thrilled to report on work I led with Dr. Shawn Hervey-Jumper and Dr. Todd Hollon which shows that we can forecast where glioblastoma will recur even at time of initial resection. It’s wonderful to see all the work I conducted during my research year @neurosurgucsf.bsky.social come together!

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Optical Microscopy Predictions of Focal Recurrence in Glioblastoma https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.24.25336541v1

UCSF neurosurgeon @herveyjumper.bsky.social & his @umich.edu colleagues have developed an intraoperative tool called FastGlioma that uses AI to help neurosurgeons see in real-time where tumor cells have infiltrated brain tissue. 🧪 braintumorcenter.ucsf.edu/news/how-ai-... @ucsfcancer.bsky.social

See highlights of @ucsfradonc.bsky.social participation at the 2025 @astro-org.bsky.social conference starting tomorrow: cancer.ucsf.edu/news/2025/09... #ASTRO2025 #UCSF

Anti-seizure meds don’t work for 1 in 3 epilepsy patients. UCSF experts are closing the gap with surgery and breakthrough devices that can change lives. tiny.ucsf.edu/HzE2SS

If Anti-Seizure Meds Don’t Work for Epilepsy, Can Surgery Help?

Vikram Rao, director of the UCSF Epilepsy Center, discusses why a third of seizure patients don’t respond to medication and the promising new surgical and technological treatments available.

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Personalized conversations with a trained #AI chatbot can reduce belief in conspiracy theories, according to a 2024 Science study. The findings, which challenge the idea that such beliefs are impervious to change, point to a tool for combating misinformation. https://scim.ag/47uE1uz

Durably reducing conspiracy beliefs through dialogues with AI

Conspiracy theory beliefs are notoriously persistent. Influential hypotheses propose that they fulfill important psychological needs, thus resisting counterevidence. Yet previous failures in correctin...

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Great talks and even more interesting and engaging discussion! Fantastic start to the think tank!

Michael Okun@michaelokun.bsky.social · last yr.

DBS Think Tank Scientific Sessions start on zoom at 1:00PM as soon as Nobel Laurette Stanley Prusiner finishes his talk and takes questions. We are off to a great start. Here are the first two sessions for today in case you are interested in listening in. @sfn.org @parkinsondotorg.bsky.social

A breakthrough method for personalized deep brain stimulation (DBS) is improving Parkinson’s treatment, and could one day be applied to depression and other conditions. "Tailoring these treatments to the person’s neural signature is really the key,” Dr. Edward Chang says. https://ucsfh.org/45HdiIr

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

UCSF looks back on four ways it pioneered deep brain stimulation with the help of federal funding, helping patients with Parkinson’s Disease, chronic pain, depression, and more.

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What an incredible month it has been completing my sub-I at @neurosurgucsf.bsky.social ! I learned so much, met so many incredible people, and I had a great time doing it. I am truly grateful to have had this opportunity. #Neurosurgery #Match2026

Peacocks have a secret hidden in their brightly colored tail feathers: tiny reflective structures that can amplify light into a laser beam. scim.ag/3UEM2oQ

Peacock feathers can be lasers

Tail feathers can emit narrow beams of light, a first in the animal kingdom

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We’re honored to be named among the top two neurosurgery programs nationwide and the Best in the West by @usnews.com! 🎉 It's a privilege caring for our patients and their families, and we thank our entire team for hard work and dedication. @ucsfhealth.bsky.social www.ucsfhealth.org/lp/us-news-2...

A new study led by @doriswang.bsky.social's lab developed a systematic way to quantify key aspects of gait in patients with #Parkinsons and used machine learning to identify personalized deep brain stimulation (DBS) settings to improve walking: www.ucsf.edu/news/2025/07... @ucsfhealth.bsky.social 🧠📈

Our latest research on the neural basis of speech-motor sequencing is now published in @nathumbehav.nature.com! Check out this high-level explainer video and read the full paper here: t.co/YKJlabr3yb

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A new @nathumbehav.nature.com study from @changlabucsf.bsky.social identifies a key role for the middle precentral gyrus in coordinating the muscle movements required to speak, challenging the longstanding view that Broca's area controls this process: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧠📈 🧪

Electrocorticographic Detection of Speech Networks in Glioma-infiltrated Cortex https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.04.663249v1

In @natcomms.nature.com, Takahide Nejo, PhD & the Okada lab worked with Saritha Krishna, PhD & @herveyjumper.bsky.social to show how the complex interaction between #glioblastoma and immune cells suppresses pro-inflammatory immune responses and drives tumor growth: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪