The brain relies on real-time delivery of oxygen and nutrients through its microvasculature, which threads through neural ...

Glucose dysregulation may drive cerebral small vessel disease progression through microstructural brain damage, according to ...

While strokes are known to increase risk for dementia, much less is known about diseases of large and small blood vessels in the brain, separate from stroke, and how they relate to dementia. Diseased ...

The brain's health depends on more than just its neurons. A complex network of blood vessels and immune cells acts as the brain's dedicated guardians—controlling what enters, cleaning up waste, and ...

A new study shows exercise releases a liver enzyme that repairs aging brain blood vessels and restores memory in mice.

Cerebral small vessel disease (SVD) encompasses a spectrum of pathological processes that affect the microvasculature of the brain. Manifestations such as white matter hyperintensities, lacunar ...

Dear Dr. Roach: A recent fall split the skin below my left eye. I went to the emergency room to see if it required stitches. Since I complained of a headache in the back of my head on the left side, ...

A new study reveals that fragmented sleep causes cellular damage to the brain's blood vessels, providing further evidence to suggest that sleep disruption predisposes the brain to dementia. "We found ...

Reduced levels of a critical protein are linked to devastating brain diseases like Alzheimer's, frontotemporal dementia, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Surprisingly, the protein shortage ...

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