According to Dr. Karolina Armonaitė, a neuroscientist from Kaunas University of Technology in Lithuania, a more precise understanding of what happens in different areas of the cerebral cortex during ...

Study insights could improve current understanding of neurodegenerative diseases as well as interpretations of brain scans.

New University of Virginia School of Medicine research suggests an unexpected way doctors may be able to improve blood flow to the brain to battle Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases.

The brain is one of the body’s most energy-demanding organs, accounting for 2 percent of the body’s weight but consuming 20 ...

All day long, our brains carry out complicated and energy-intensive tasks such as remembering, solving problems, and making decisions. To supply the energy these tasks require while conserving this ...

New research suggests an unexpected way doctors may be able to improve blood flow to the brain to battle Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases.

To simulate blood flow inside brain aneurysms, researchers from Japan have developed a computational method that combines 4D flow MRI, computational fluid dynamics, and data assimilation, which ...

UC Berkeley scientists have developed a magnetic resonance imaging technique that tracks blood through the brain’s veins back to its source.

Scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital found that patients with sickle cell disease who received gene therapy experienced a return to normal blood flow in the brain.

Neurodegenerative diseases have always posed a significant therapeutic challenge due to the restrictive nature of the blood–brain barrier (BBB). Intranasal drug delivery has emerged as a noninvasive ...