Though it accounts for just two percent of the body’s weight, the brain consumes a whopping 20% of its total energy. To get the energy it needs for more complicated tasks, the brain has evolved a ...

Cerebral blood delivery depends on mechanisms such as electrical signaling, which propagates through capillary networks to upstream arterioles to deliver blood, and calcium signaling, which fine-tunes ...

Researchers are shifting focus from large arteries to microvessels, where nitric oxide activity may signal early circulatory changes before symptoms appear. Nitric oxide is a signaling molecule ...

With challenges around usability, trust and regulation addressed, RTBF can play a meaningful role in shifting healthcare from episodic response toward prevention.

Moyamoya disease is a rare, progressive cerebrovascular disorder caused by the shrinking of major brain blood vessels resulting in decreased blood flow to certain brain regions and eventually can lead ...