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Bruce L. Miller, M.D.

Behavioral neurologist

Dr. Bruce L. Miller directs the UCSF dementia center. His goal is to ensure the delivery of model care to all patients who enter the clinical and research programs at the UCSF Memory and Aging Center.

Miller's focus is dementia, with special interest in brain and behavior relationships as well as the genetic and molecular underpinnings of disease. His work in frontotemporal dementia (FTD) emphasizes both the behavioral and emotional deficits that characterize these patients, while simultaneously noting the visual creativity that can emerge in patients with FTD. He is the principal investigator of the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), as well as an NIH-funded project on FTD called Frontotemporal Dementia: Genes, Imaging and Emotions. Miller oversees a healthy aging program supported through the Larry H. Hillblom Foundation and the Hellman Center, which includes an artist in residence program. In addition, he helps lead two philanthropy-funded research consortia, the Tau Consortium and Consortium for Frontotemporal Research, focused around developing treatments for tau and progranulin disorders.

Miller has received many awards including the Potamkin Award from the American Academy of Neurology, the Raymond Adams Lecture at the American Neurological Association, the Elliot Royer Award from the San Francisco neurological community, the UCSF Annual Faculty Research Lectureship in Clinical Science, the UCSF Academic Senate Distinction in Mentoring Award, and the Gene D. Cohen Research Award in Creativity and Aging from the National Center for Creative Aging.

Miller is author of The Human Frontal Lobes, The Behavioral Neurology of Dementia, and extensive publications about dementia. He has been featured in Fortune Magazine, The Charlie Rose Show, PBS NewsHour, The New York Times and other media. For nearly three decades, Miller has been the scientific director for the philanthropic organization, The John Douglas French Alzheimer's Foundation.

Clinics

Concussion and Brain Injury Program
1500 Owens St., Second Floor
San Francisco, CA 94158
Phone: (415) 353-1915
Fax: (415) 514-6075

Hours: Monday to Friday
8 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Memory and Aging Center
1500 Owens St., Suite 320
San Francisco, CA 94158
Phone: (415) 476-6880
Fax: (415) 476-4800

Hours: Monday to Friday
8 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Conditions & Treatments

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Additional Languages

French
Spanish

Education

University of British Columbia 1978

Residencies

Vancouver General Hospital, Internal Medicine 1980
University of Western Ontario, Neurology 1981
UCLA, Neurology 1983

Fellowships

UCLA, Pharmacology 1985
UCLA, Neurobehavior 1985

Selected Research and Publications

  1. Johnson DY, Dunkelberger DL, Henry M, Haman A, Greicius MD, Wong K, Dearmond SJ, Miller BL, Gorno-Tempini ML, Geschwind MD. Sporadic jakob-creutzfeldt disease presenting as primary progressive aphasia. JAMA Neurol. 2013 Feb 1; 70(2):254-7.
  2. Grinberg LT, Wang X, Wang C, Sohn PD, Theofilas P, Sidhu M, Arevalo JB, Heinsen H, Huang EJ, Rosen H, Miller BL, Gan L, Seeley WW. Argyrophilic grain disease differs from other tauopathies by lacking tau acetylation. Acta Neuropathol. 2013 Apr; 125(4):581-93.
  3. Armstrong MJ, Litvan I, Lang AE, Bak TH, Bhatia KP, Borroni B, Boxer AL, Dickson DW, Grossman M, Hallett M, Josephs KA, Kertesz A, Lee SE, Miller BL, Reich SG, Riley DE, Tolosa E, Tröster AI, Vidailhet M, Weiner WJ. Criteria for the diagnosis of corticobasal degeneration. Neurology. 2013 Jan 29; 80(5):496-503.
  4. Lehmann M, Ghosh PM, Madison C, Laforce R, Corbetta-Rastelli C, Weiner MW, Greicius MD, Seeley WW, Gorno-Tempini ML, Rosen HJ, Miller BL, Jagust WJ, Rabinovici GD. Diverging patterns of amyloid deposition and hypometabolism in clinical variants of probable Alzheimer's disease. Brain. 2013 Mar; 136(Pt 3):844-58.
  5. Lu PH, Mendez MF, Lee GJ, Leow AD, Lee HW, Shapira J, Jimenez E, Boeve BB, Caselli RJ, Graff-Radford NR, Jack CR, Kramer JH, Miller BL, Bartzokis G, Thompson PM, Knopman DS. Patterns of brain atrophy in clinical variants of frontotemporal lobar degeneration. Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord. 2013; 35(1-2):34-50.
  6. Boxer AL, Knopman DS, Kaufer DI, Grossman M, Onyike C, Graf-Radford N, Mendez M, Kerwin D, Lerner A, Wu CK, Koestler M, Shapira J, Sullivan K, Klepac K, Lipowski K, Ullah J, Fields S, Kramer JH, Merrilees J, Neuhaus J, Mesulam MM, Miller BL. Memantine in patients with frontotemporal lobar degeneration: a multicentre, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. Lancet Neurol. 2013 Feb; 12(2):149-56.
  7. Zhang Y, Tartaglia MC, Schuff N, Chiang GC, Ching C, Rosen HJ, Gorno-Tempini ML, Miller BL, Weiner MW. MRI signatures of brain macrostructural atrophy and microstructural degradation in frontotemporal lobar degeneration subtypes. J Alzheimers Dis. 2013 Jan 1; 33(2):431-44.
  8. Caso F, Gesierich B, Henry M, Sidhu M, Lamarre A, Babiak M, Miller BL, Rabinovici GD, Huang EJ, Magnani G, Filippi M, Comi G, Seeley WW, Gorno-Tempini ML. Nonfluent/agrammatic PPA with in-vivo cortical amyloidosis and Pick's disease pathology. Behav Neurol. 2013 Jan 1; 26(1):95-106.
  9. Alkalay A, Rabinovici GD, Zimmerman G, Agarwal N, Kaufer D, Miller BL, Jagust WJ, Soreq H. Plasma Acetylcholinesterase Activity Correlates with Intracerebral ß-Amyloid Load. Curr Alzheimer Res. 2013 Jan 1; 10(1):48-56.
  10. Merrilees J, Dowling GA, Hubbard E, Mastick J, Ketelle R, Miller BL. Characterization of apathy in persons with frontotemporal dementia and the impact on family caregivers. Alzheimer Dis Assoc Disord. 2013 Jan; 27(1):62-7.
  11. Halabi C, Halabi A, Dean DL, Wang PN, Boxer AL, Trojanowski JQ, Dearmond SJ, Miller BL, Kramer JH, Seeley WW. Patterns of striatal degeneration in frontotemporal dementia. Alzheimer Dis Assoc Disord. 2013 Jan; 27(1):74-83.
  12. Paterson RW, Torres-Chae CC, Kuo AL, Ando T, Nguyen EA, Wong K, Dearmond SJ, Haman A, Garcia P, Johnson DY, Miller BL, Geschwind MD. Differential diagnosis of jakob-creutzfeldt disease. Arch Neurol. 2012 Dec 1; 69(12):1578-82.
  13. Kerchner GA, Racine CA, Hale S, Wilheim R, Laluz V, Miller BL, Kramer JH. Cognitive processing speed in older adults: relationship with white matter integrity. PLoS One. 2012; 7(11):e50425.
  14. Almeida S, Zhang Z, Coppola G, Mao W, Futai K, Karydas A, Geschwind MD, Tartaglia MC, Gao F, Gianni D, Sena-Esteves M, Geschwind DH, Miller BL, Farese RV, Gao FB. Induced pluripotent stem cell models of progranulin-deficient frontotemporal dementia uncover specific reversible neuronal defects. Cell Rep. 2012 Oct 25; 2(4):789-98.
  15. Boxer AL, Gold M, Huey E, Hu WT, Rosen H, Kramer J, Gao FB, Burton EA, Chow T, Kao A, Leavitt BR, Lamb B, Grether M, Knopman D, Cairns NJ, Mackenzie IR, Mitic L, Roberson ED, Van Kammen D, Cantillon M, Zahs K, Jackson G, Salloway S, Morris J, Tong G, Feldman H, Fillit H, Dickinson S, Khachaturian ZS, Sutherland M, Abushakra S, Lewcock J, Farese R, Kenet RO, Laferla F, Perrin S, Whitaker S, Honig L, Mesulam MM, Boeve B, Grossman M, Miller BL, Cummings JL. The advantages of frontotemporal degeneration drug development (part 2 of frontotemporal degeneration: The next therapeutic frontier). Alzheimers Dement. 2013 Mar; 9(2):189-98.
  16. Deleon J, Gesierich B, Besbris M, Ogar J, Henry ML, Miller BL, Gorno-Tempini ML, Wilson SM. Elicitation of specific syntactic structures in primary progressive aphasia. Brain Lang. 2012 Dec; 123(3):183-90.
  17. Boxer AL, Gold M, Huey E, Gao FB, Burton EA, Chow T, Kao A, Leavitt BR, Lamb B, Grether M, Knopman D, Cairns NJ, Mackenzie IR, Mitic L, Roberson ED, Van Kammen D, Cantillon M, Zahs K, Salloway S, Morris J, Tong G, Feldman H, Fillit H, Dickinson S, Khachaturian Z, Sutherland M, Farese R, Miller BL, Cummings J. Frontotemporal degeneration, the next therapeutic frontier: Molecules and animal models for frontotemporal degeneration drug development. Alzheimers Dement. 2013 Mar; 9(2):176-88.
  18. Migliaccio R, Agosta F, Possin KL, Rabinovici GD, Miller BL, Gorno-Tempini ML. White matter atrophy in Alzheimer's disease variants. Alzheimers Dement. 2012 Oct; 8(5 Suppl):S78-87.e1-2.
  19. Takada LT, Pimentel ML, Dejesus-Hernandez M, Fong JC, Yokoyama JS, Karydas A, Thibodeau MP, Rutherford NJ, Baker MC, Lomen-Hoerth C, Rademakers R, Miller BL. Frontotemporal dementia in a Brazilian kindred with the c9orf72 mutation. Arch Neurol. 2012 Sep 1; 69(9):1149-53.
  20. Woolley JD, Strobl EV, Shelly WB, Karydas AM, Robin Ketelle RN, Wolkowitz OM, Miller BL, Rankin KP. BDNF serum concentrations show no relationship with diagnostic group or medication status in neurodegenerative disease. Curr Alzheimer Res. 2012 Sep 1; 9(7):815-21.

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