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 ...

Abnormal clumps of proteins like α-synuclein, amyloid beta and tau are associated with neurodegenerative conditions like ...

Acute ischemic stroke remains one of medicine’s most time-sensitive emergencies. When blood flow to the brain becomes blocked, approximately 1.9 million neurons die each minute without intervention.

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 ...