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William W. Seeley, M.D.

Neurologist

Dr. William Seeley is an associate professor of neurology and works at the UCSF Memory and Aging Center. He cares for patients with neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzhemier's disease and frontotemporal dementia (FTD). In 2011, he was named a MacArthur Foundation Fellow for his research on understanding FTD and other neurodegenerative diseases. Seeley's research focuses on why dementias target specific nerve cell populations. The goal of his research is to discover what makes brain tissues susceptible or resistant to degeneration and to translate these findings into new treatments.

Seeley earned a medical degree at UCSF, where he completed an internship in internal medicine. He completed a residency in neurology at the Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women's Hospitals in Boston and a fellowship in behavioral neurology at UCSF.

Clinics

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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Education

UCSF School of Medicine 1999

Residencies

Partners Healthcare 2003

Selected Research and Publications

  1. Dopper EG, Rombouts SA, Jiskoot LC, Heijer Td, de Graaf JR, Koning Id, Hammerschlag AR, Seelaar H, Seeley WW, Veer IM, van Buchem MA, Rizzu P, van Swieten JC. Structural and functional brain connectivity in presymptomatic familial frontotemporal dementia. Neurology. 2013 Feb 26; 80(9):814-23.
  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. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. Whitcomb DC, Larusch J, Krasinskas AM, Klei L, Smith JP, Brand RE, Neoptolemos JP, Lerch MM, Tector M, Sandhu BS, Guda NM, Orlichenko L. Common genetic variants in the CLDN2 and PRSS1-PRSS2 loci alter risk for alcohol-related and sporadic pancreatitis. Nat Genet. 2012 Nov 11; 44(12):1349-54.
  7. Greicius MD, Seeley WW. Introduction to the special issue on connectivity. Neuroimage. 2012 Oct 1; 62(4):2181.
  8. Sha SJ, Takada LT, Rankin KP, Yokoyama JS, Rutherford NJ, Fong JC, Khan B, Karydas A, Baker MC, DeJesus-Hernandez M, Pribadi M, Coppola G, Geschwind DH, Rademakers R, Lee SE, Seeley W, Miller BL, Boxer AL. Frontotemporal dementia due to C9ORF72 mutations: clinical and imaging features. Neurology. 2012 Sep 4; 79(10):1002-11.
  9. Rutherford NJ, Heckman MG, Dejesus-Hernandez M, Baker MC, Soto-Ortolaza AI, Rayaprolu S, Stewart H, Finger E, Volkening K, Seeley WW, Hatanpaa KJ, Lomen-Hoerth C, Kertesz A, Bigio EH, Lippa C, Knopman DS, Kretzschmar HA, Neumann M, Caselli RJ, White CL, Mackenzie IR, Petersen RC, Strong MJ, Miller BL, Boeve BF, Uitti RJ, Boylan KB, Wszolek ZK, Graff-Radford NR, Dickson DW, Ross OA, Rademakers R. Length of normal alleles of C9ORF72 GGGGCC repeat do not influence disease phenotype. Neurobiol Aging. 2012 Dec; 33(12):2950.e5-7.
  10. Laforce R, Kerchner GA, Rabinovici GD, Fong JC, Miller BL, Seeley WW, Grinberg LT. A 44-year-old man with profound behavioural changes. Can J Neurol Sci. 2012 Jul; 39(4):527-30.
  11. Chao SZ, Rosen HJ, Azor V, Ong H, Tse MM, Lai NB, Hou CE, Seeley WW, Miller BL, Matthews BR. Frontotemporal dementia in eight Chinese individuals. Neurocase. 2013 Feb; 19(1):76-84.
  12. Damoiseaux JS, Seeley WW, Zhou J, Shirer WR, Coppola G, Karydas A, Rosen HJ, Miller BL, Kramer JH, Greicius MD. Gender modulates the APOE e4 effect in healthy older adults: convergent evidence from functional brain connectivity and spinal fluid tau levels. J Neurosci. 2012 Jun 13; 32(24):8254-62.
  13. Gennatas ED, Cholfin JA, Zhou J, Crawford RK, Sasaki DA, Karydas A, Boxer AL, Bonasera SJ, Rankin KP, Gorno-Tempini ML, Rosen HJ, Kramer JH, Weiner M, Miller BL, Seeley WW. COMT Val158Met genotype influences neurodegeneration within dopamine-innervated brain structures. Neurology. 2012 May 22; 78(21):1663-9.
  14. Khan BK, Yokoyama JS, Takada LT, Sha SJ, Rutherford NJ, Fong JC, Karydas AM, Wu T, Ketelle RS, Baker MC, Hernandez MD, Coppola G, Geschwind DH, Rademakers R, Lee SE, Rosen HJ, Rabinovici GD, Seeley WW, Rankin KP, Boxer AL, Miller BL. Atypical, slowly progressive behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia associated with C9ORF72 hexanucleotide expansion. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2012 Apr; 83(4):358-64.
  15. Zhou J, Gennatas ED, Kramer JH, Miller BL, Seeley WW. Predicting regional neurodegeneration from the healthy brain functional connectome. Neuron. 2012 Mar 22; 73(6):1216-27.
  16. Guo CC, Kurth F, Zhou J, Mayer EA, Eickhoff SB, Kramer JH, Seeley WW. One-year test-retest reliability of intrinsic connectivity network fMRI in older adults. Neuroimage. 2012 Jul 16; 61(4):1471-83.
  17. Sturm VE, Sollberger M, Seeley WW, Rankin KP, Ascher EA, Rosen HJ, Miller BL, Levenson RW. Role of right pregenual anterior cingulate cortex in self-conscious emotional reactivity. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci. 2013 Apr; 8(4):468-74.
  18. Rabinovici GD, Rosen HJ, Alkalay A, Kornak J, Furst AJ, Agarwal N, Mormino EC, O'Neil JP, Janabi M, Karydas A, Growdon ME, Jang JY, Huang EJ, Dearmond SJ, Trojanowski JQ, Grinberg LT, Gorno-Tempini ML, Seeley WW, Miller BL, Jagust WJ. Amyloid vs FDG-PET in the differential diagnosis of AD and FTLD. Neurology. 2011 Dec 6; 77(23):2034-42.
  19. Lee SE, Seeley WW, Poorzand P, Rademakers R, Karydas A, Stanley CM, Miller BL, Rankin KP. Clinical characterization of bvFTD due to FUS neuropathology. Neurocase. 2012; 18(4):305-17.
  20. DeJesus-Hernandez M, Mackenzie IR, Boeve BF, Boxer AL, Baker M, Rutherford NJ, Nicholson AM, Finch NA, Flynn H, Adamson J, Kouri N, Wojtas A, Sengdy P, Hsiung GY, Karydas A, Seeley WW, Josephs KA, Coppola G, Geschwind DH, Wszolek ZK, Feldman H, Knopman DS, Petersen RC, Miller BL, Dickson DW, Boylan KB, Graff-Radford NR, Rademakers R. Expanded GGGGCC hexanucleotide repeat in noncoding region of C9ORF72 causes chromosome 9p-linked FTD and ALS. Neuron. 2011 Oct 20; 72(2):245-56.

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