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Menopause symptoms can affect sleep, mood, and everyday quality of life in ways that are easy to dismiss but hard to ignore. Kathryn Macaulay, M.D., Director, UC San Diego Menopause Health Program, explains what menopause is, when hormone therapy is considered, and why treatment decisions depend on symptoms, health history, and individual risk. Macaulay also addresses hot flashes, night sweats, osteoporosis prevention, and the factors that shape whether hormone therapy is a good option. She helps clarify why menopause care is not one size fits all and points toward more informed conversations about symptom relief and long-term health. [Show ID: 41521]
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Menopause symptoms can affect sleep, mood, and everyday quality of life in ways that are easy to dismiss but hard to ignore. Kathryn Macaulay, M.D., Director, UC San Diego Menopause Health Program, explains what menopause is, when hormone therapy is considered, and why treatment decisions depend on symptoms, health history, and individual risk. Macaulay also addresses hot flashes, night sweats, osteoporosis prevention, and the factors that shape whether hormone therapy is a good option. She helps clarify why menopause care is not one size fits all and points toward more informed conversations about symptom relief and long-term health. [Show ID: 41521]
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![Menopause and Healthy Aging
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Menopause and healthy aging affect women’s health and well-being in important ways. Dr. Tami Rowen explains how the best available evidence shapes menopausal management, with a focus on the data and safety around hormone therapy. Dr. Riley Bove examines brain, heart, gynecological, bone, and emotional health during the postmenopausal years, helping clarify how women can support health in this next phase of life. This work helps explain why evidence-based care matters and points toward practical strategies for healthy aging. Recorded on 05/13/2026. [7/2026] [Show ID: 41548]
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![How Movement Supports Healthy Aging
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Chronic pain in older adults can affect mobility, mood, sleep, social connection, and independence. Una Makris, M.D., M.Sc., UC San Diego and VA San Diego Healthcare System, explains why musculoskeletal pain is common later in life and why medications or procedures alone may not meet the needs of many patients. Drawing on her work in rheumatology and geriatrics, Makris describes how pain and depression can reinforce each other, making it important to address both together. She highlights an age-friendly behavioral coaching approach that uses motivational interviewing, values-based goal setting, physical activity, and social support to help people reconnect with meaningful activities. By focusing on small, safe increases in movement, this research points to practical ways to support better function, quality of life, and healthy aging. Recorded on 05/20/2026. [Show ID: 41172]
0:00 Aging, Pain and Mobility
4:06 Why Chronic Pain Is Common in Older Adults
6:39 How Pain and Depression Are Connected
9:55 Why Patients Want More Than Medication
11:40 Behavioral Tools for Pain Management
15:38 Motivate: Coaching for Pain and Depression
18:52 How Motivational Interviewing Supports Change
20:28 Telephone Coaching and Access to Care
28:16 Early Results from Motivate
35:09 Why Movement Matters for Healthy Aging
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Q: How are chronic pain and depression connected in older adults?
A: Makris explains that pain and depression are deeply interconnected. Chronic pain can contribute to depression, isolation, sleep problems, and reduced mobility, while depression and anxiety can make pain harder to manage. She emphasizes that both need to be acknowledged and addressed together.
Q: What is the Motivate program?
A: Motivate is a telephone-based behavioral coaching program for older adults with pain and depressive symptoms. It uses motivational interviewing, behavioral activation, and values-based physical activity goals to help patients move more safely and reconnect with meaningful activities.
Q: Why focus on movement when someone is in pain?
A: Makris explains that mobility is one of the strongest predictors of independence and healthy aging. Small, meaningful increases in movement can support function, mood, and quality of life, especially when goals are tied to what matters most to the patient. How Movement Supports Healthy Aging](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/iLzWaNf-adU/mqdefault.jpg)
![Trauma Informed Relational Care
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As part of the 2026 Developmental Disabilities Conference, UCSFs Dr. Joan Jeung discusses trauma informed care. Recorded on 03/05/2026. [Show ID: 41457]
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![CARTA: Archaic Introgression Reveals Human Dispersals with Janet Kelso
The genome sequences of Neandertals and Denisovans have provided a wealth of new information about the origins, migrations, and interactions of ancient humans. These genomes have revealed that mixture between hominin groups was common: all modern humans outside Africa carry around 2% Neandertal DNA from a single major episode of Neandertal gene flow, while the ancestors of present-day Asians and Oceanians also met and mixed with multiple, genetically distinct Denisovan populations. Archaeological evidence suggests multiple dispersals of modern humans out of Africa, with early fossils identified in East and Southeast Asia over 50 thousand years ago. In contrast, genomic studies indicate that all present-day non-African populations descend primarily from a single dispersal after ~50 ka, though the migration routes of ancestral populations across Eurasia and Oceania remain unclear. Janet Kelso, professor at Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, shows how using the distribution of Neandertal and Denisovan ancestry in ancient and present-day modern humans can determine when, where and how often modern and archaic humans met and mixed. Recorded on 11/07/2025. [12/2025] [Show ID: 41192]
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![Prostate Cancer: Brachytherapy Options
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As part of the 2026 UCSF Patient Conference on Prostate Cancer, Dr. I-Chow (Joe) Hsu discusses brachytherapy. Recorded on 04/17/2026. [Show ID: 41552]
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![CARTA: Human-specific Alterations in Brain Cellular Proportions with Genevieve Konopka
Our brains are engines of imagination—an “idea organ” that has transformed both our species and the planet. Genevieve Konopka, Chair of the Department of Neurobiology in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, asks how genes drive the development of the cell types that build the human brain and give rise to cognition, and how cognitive behavior emerges from evolutionarily adapted genomic programs. Because the human brain is comprised of heterogenous cell types, she examines gene expression patterns and chromatin states within specific cell types to gain insights into brain evolution and the development of cognitive disorders. Using single cell genomics to compare human and nonhuman primate brains, her work uncovers human brain innovations, including changes in the proportions of immature oligodendrocytes in the neocortex. She recapitulates this result in vitro using stem cell derived models from humans and nonhuman primates, highlighting the intersection of cellular genomics with brain evolution and function. Recorded on 02/27/2026. [3/2026] [Show ID: 41298]
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![Fred Ramsdell on Trust, Risk and American Science
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Scientific progress depends on curiosity, investment and the freedom to take risks. Nobel Laureate and UC San Diego alumnus Fred Ramsdell traces his path from community college to biotechnology and a discovery that reshaped understanding of immune regulation. He explains how decades of publicly funded research made that breakthrough possible and why failed experiments are essential steps toward discovery. Ramsdell discusses threats to federal research funding, the private sector’s limited tolerance for risk and the need for scientists to communicate clearly. Rebuilding trust, he argues, starts with listening, finding shared values and explaining how basic research leads to new treatments, economic value and national security. Sustained support for science matters because no one can predict where the next major breakthrough will begin. [8/2026] [Show ID: 41113]
0:00 Curiosity and a Career in Immunology
5:50 Team Science and the Scurvy Mouse Discovery
19:05 Learning He Won the Nobel Prize
24:47 Why Public Research Funding Matters
30:15 How Scientists Can Rebuild Public Trust
37:55 Why Failure and Risk Drive Discovery
41:25 Expanding Access to Research Opportunities
44:51 Cell Therapy, Research Risk and Public Dialogue
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Q: Why is public funding important for scientific research?
A: Basic research is unpredictable and often takes years, so it needs stable funding and room for experiments that may not work. Ramsdell explains that publicly funded discoveries provide the foundation for advances in cancer treatment, autoimmune disease and biotechnology.
Q: How can scientists rebuild public trust?
A: Scientists can begin by listening, asking why people hold certain views and communicating in ways that connect with shared values. They also need to explain how research works, including why unsuccessful experiments can still produce useful knowledge.
Q: Why do scientific research and innovation require risk?
A: Researchers cannot know in advance which idea will produce an important discovery. Trying many approaches, including some that fail, creates more opportunities for breakthroughs and helps scientists learn what to investigate next. Fred Ramsdell on Trust, Risk and American Science](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/jtuKKqs-EHQ/mqdefault.jpg)
![CARTA: The Idea Organ - Welcome & Opening Remarks
Humans live in a world of ideas—born in the brain, shared through language, accumulated in culture across generations, and made reality. From the first flaked stone tools to the building of shelters, from figurative and symbolic art to abstract thought, our brains are engines of imagination—an “idea organ” that has transformed both our species and the planet itself.
The distinct biology of the human brain, scaffolded by language and culture, allows ideas to be formed, named, shared, and accumulated across generations. This process of cumulative culture, knowledge built upon knowledge, has propelled humans far beyond the cognitive landscapes of other large-brained animals, including our closest living and extinct relatives.
This symposium explores how the human brain develops, functions, and maintains its role as the seat of ideas. We trace its story from molecules, cells, neuronal migration and circuitry, to the maternal, parental, and social influences that shape its growth, including the countless ways that brain function can be compromised at any stage of life. We examine how the uniquely human interplay of biology and culture gave rise to a brain capable of perceiving and remaking the world around us. By examining the evolutionary roots of our “idea organ,” we aim to illuminate how this singular capacity emerged—and how it continues to drive human innovation. [Show ID: 41358]
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