About Neuroscience
- Scientists have only begun to understand the wonders of the nervous system, using increasingly sophisticated tools and techniques.
Brain Basics
- Learn the basics of how the brain’s 100 billion nerve cells are born, grow, connect, and function.
Sensing, Thinking & Behaving
- How do cell circuits enable us to read and speak? How and why do we form relationships? How do we think, remember, or despair?
Diseases & Disorders
- Discover causes of disorders of the brain and body, as well as the science enabling prevention or treatment.
Across the Lifespan
- From birth through old age, brain cells and the connections between them change in response to the environment.
In Society
- The study of the brain and nervous system applies to countless facets of daily life, from decisions about money and education, to the way we view ourselves and others.
- - In Society

Who We Are

Bruce Miller

Clinical Director
Memory and Aging Center, University of California, San Francisco

Bruce Miller, MD, is a professor of neurology and psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), where he holds the A.W. and Mary Margaret Clausen Distinguished Chair. He is also the clinical director of the UCSF Memory and Aging Center. Miller is a behavioral neurologist with a special interest in brain and behavior relationships and whose work focuses on dementia.