The Center for Imaging of Neurodegenerative Diseases (CIND) is located at the Veterans Administration Medical Center campus of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Researchers at the CIND use MRI and other techniques to study the changes in the brain which occur in normal aging and neurodegenerative diseases. The goal is to slow, and ultimately prevent, the development of neurodegenerative diseases.

The Consortium for Frontotemporal Dementia Research (CFR) is a UCSF-based consortium established to accelerate research of FTD. Initial funding for the CFR comes from private donations. The CFR was created to combine the power of this funding with collaborative science by the best minds in the field to find a cure for FTD related to progranulin mutations within 10 years.

Robert W. Levenson, PhD studies human emotion by examining the subjective experience of emotion, emotional behavior and physiological reactivity to emotional stimuli. His lab focuses on the physiological nature of human emotion, variations in emotion associated with age, gender, culture and clinical pathology, and the role emotion plays in interpersonal interactions.

Dr. William Seeley directs the Selective Vulnerability Research Laboratory where they focus on frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and Alzheimer's disease (AD), the most common causes of dementia among patients under 65 years of age. AD begins with episodic memory loss that reflects medial temporal lobe degeneration. FTD, in contrast, describes a group of disorders that cause progressive social-emotional or language dysfunction. Because these FTD-affected brain capacities are difficult or impossible to model in experimental animals, human studies continue to play an important role in understanding FTD.