Monkey brain map reveals blood vessels are densest in energy-intensive regions, such as the visual cortex
In the brain, not all blood flow is created equal ... While similar cortical layer vascular maps don't yet exist for people, ...
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Monkey brain map reveals the importance of sight
A better understanding of how blood flow is distributed across different brain regions and layers could help unravel how vascular dysfunction impacts disorders linked to neurodegeneration and aging.
Medical Xpress4d
A protein called CD2AP offers important clues to Alzheimer's disease
The research is published in the journal Neuron. Nguyen compares the brain's vascular system to a tree. The complex branches—arteries, capillaries and veins—are critical to delivering ...
University of Manchester1y
Research discovers key cause of restricted blood flow to the brain in vascular dementia
New research on mice has shed light on how high blood pressure causes changes to arteries in the brain, a process that leads to vascular dementia. The research, led by University of Manchester ...
Alzheimer's Society1y
What is vascular dementia?
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 ...
Nature4y
The vascular basement membrane in brain metastasis
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 ...