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Maximize your Memory with Brain Games

>> May 13th, 2013 · UCTV

Do you have trouble remembering people’s names? Have you ever forgotten where you parked your car?

Dr. Kate Possin, assistant professor of neuropsychology at UCSF, says that those are actually specific memory problems that are linked with different circuits or memory systems in the brain. In this video, watch her use different memory tests to reveal the difference between types of memory, like long term memory and working memory.

If you answered yes to those first two questions, be sure to check out the brain games that can help you maximize the use of your memory.

Then, Dr.Winston Chiong, Neurology fellow at UCSF, discusses the link between the perception of oneself and memory, how neuroscience could help answer the existential question “what is the self?”

For more information from top neurology experts, see the other videos in the Multidimensional Mind series.

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Health and Medicine, Science, UC San Francisco, UCTV - Tags: aging, brain games, memory, neurology, ucsf

March – News & Highlights

>> February 28th, 2013 · UCTV

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Lighting The World

Lighting the World

We take light for granted, yet more than two billion people in the world go through their entire lives without reliable lighting. But that’s changing, thanks in part to the brilliant discovery of UC Santa Barbara’s Shuji Nakamura.

The UCTV Prime series Lighting the World: Shuji Nakamura and His Brilliant Discovery, made possible by UC Santa Barbara’s Solid State Lighting and Energy Center, tells the story of Nakamura’s determined effort to develop the white LED and the revolution in lighting that his discovery has brought to the world.

Careers In Innovation

Powered by UC San Diego Extension, UCTV’s Career Channel provides a public service as an unbiased provider of information, tools and experts to help college graduates with their careers.

This month brings a slate of new programs from UCSB’s Technology Management Program and UC Berkeley’s Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology, featuring experts on innovation in the high-tech marketplace.

Breeze Through The Basics of First-Year Med School

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be a first-year medical student? Are you planning to pursue a career in healthcare but want to learn more first?

Learn from the same faculty who teach the fundamental concepts of medicine to first-year medical students at UCSF with this new UCSF Osher Mini Medical School series, premiering March 18.

Foundations for Future Health Care Providers

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All programs repeat throughout the month. Visit the Program Schedule on our web site for additional air dates and times.

New Online Videos and Podcasts

The Evolution of Human Nutrition

New Insights into the Early History of the Earth and Moon

Mind Your Heart: Stress, Mental Health and Heart Disease

Sleep On This: Connecting Sleep Habits to Health

>> February 19th, 2013 · UCTV

Slide from “How is Sleep Related to Obesity? Sleep and Weight Gain,” available on UCTV (click image to go to the program)

Sleep deprivation takes a huge toll on society, and not just because it makes for a cranky population. Poor sleep has been linked to a range of health problems and researchers at the University of California and elsewhere are working to better understand how sleep — or lack of it — impacts our brains and bodies.

Two new UCTV programs highlight sleep research on specific segments of the population: women and older people.

UCTV Prime’s “Sleep, Memory and Age” shows how scientists at UC Berkeley have found a link between poor sleep and the hallmark maladies of old age: memory loss and brain deterioration. Their discovery opens the door to boosting the quality of sleep in elderly people to improve memory.

In “Women and Sleep: From Stressful to Restful,” UCSF School of Nursing’s Kathryn Lee explores sleep, fatigue, and circadian rhythms in women.

There are plenty more intriguing sleep research updates from UCTV, which you can browse here. You might also be interested in “Sleep, Stress and Obesity: A Weighty Issue,” a five-part series from UCSF’s Center for Obesity, Assessment, Study and Treatment (COAST), which examines this three-pronged problem from a variety of interesting angles, including how sleep and stress impact our metabolism and brain function, why adequate sleep and stress reduction may be the 21st century pillars of health, and how sleep and stress may explain disparities in obesity risk.

Get in your jammies, grab a warm glass of milk and gain a whole new understanding of of the importance of a good night’s sleep.

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Health and Medicine, UC Berkeley, UC San Francisco, UCTV - Tags: aging, brain, memory, Obesity, sleep, stress, uc berkeley, ucsf

Sleep, Stress & Obesity: A Weighty Issue

>> December 4th, 2012 · UCTV

Obesity is our nation’s greatest epidemic and public health challenge and the folks at the UCSF Center for Obesity, Assessment, Study and Treatment (COAST) have found an interesting new angle in which to approach it — through sleep.

In one of the first scientific conferences to focus on the interactions between sleep, stress and obesity, COAST gathered together leading researchers from across the country to examine the problem from a variety of interesting angles, including how sleep and stress impact our metabolism and brain function, why adequate sleep and stress reduction may be the 21st century pillars of health, and more. And now you can join in on this groundbreaking exchange of information.

Watch “Sleep, Stress & Obesity: A Weighty Issue” on UCTV.

Here are the first two programs in the five-part series, with more coming online each week. And check out the COAST series page for more obesity-related video.

Sleep and Weight Gain

Sleep Epidemiology

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Boo-Boos and Bellyaches: New Approaches to Keeping Kids Healthy

>> October 11th, 2012 · UCTV

Are children today sicker or healthier than we were?

Increasingly, things that were thought to be a normal part of childhood are being recognized and treated as chronic medical conditions. Where do we draw the line between these “normal things that kids get” and “medical conditions?”

In the face of a seemingly rapid increase in the number of children with acute and chronic illnesses, the new UCSF Mini Medical School series, “New Approaches to Keeping Kids Healthy,” explores what we know and what remains a mystery (or a simple myth) and challenges you to think in new ways about old concepts in pediatric medicine.

The six-part series runs through the first week of November. You can find all program listings at the series page, with more coming online each week. Here’s what’s available now:

Food Allergies: Past, Present and Future

Is Fast Food Addictive?

The Science Behind Old Wives’ Tales: Fact vs. Fiction

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Health and Medicine, UC San Francisco, UCTV - Tags: health, medicine, pediatrics, ucsf

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