This review focuses on the hippocampal vascular supply, presenting what is known about hippocampal hemodynamics and blood-brain barrier function during health and disease, and discusses evidence ...

A study reveals that traumatic brain injury alters the small vessels in the brain, resulting in an accumulation of amyloid beta -- a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease. The findings suggest that vascular ...

In fact, a fundoscopic examination of the retina thus reveals the health of the brain vascular bed ... may be due to hypoxia and reduced nutrient supply. With the caliber parameters, each SD ...

Carbonell, W. S., Ansorge, O., Sibson, N. & Muschel, R. The vascular basement membrane as “soil” in brain metastasis. PLoS One 4, e5857 (2009). An assumption ...

Vascular dementia is a common type of dementia. Reduced blood flow to the brain is a primary cause of ... high blood pressure in the blood vessels that supply the lungs. Now, however, it has ...

High blood pressure is the main cause of vascular dementia, a condition characterised by poor blood flow to the brain. The reduced blood supply starves brain cells of nutrients and over time they ...

Vascular dementia is the second most common type of dementia (after Alzheimer's disease). Everyone experiences it differently. Symptoms vary depending on the person, the cause and the areas of the ...

The most common type is ischemic stroke, which is when blood supply to part of the brain is blocked or ... This occurs when ...