Two university hospitals are pioneering new ways to expand lifesaving heart transplants for adults and babies — advances that ...

The potential for these kinds of machines to reshape computer processing, increase energy efficiency, and revolutionize medical testing has scientists excited. But when do we consider these cells to ...

Each year in the U.S., approximately 2.5 million people suffer traumatic brain injuries (TBIs). About 50,000 of these injuries will result in death, and more than 80,000 will lead to permanent ...

New University of Virginia School of Medicine research suggests an unexpected way doctors may be able to improve blood flow ...

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

The gap between a brain’s chronological age and its predicted age strongly mediates risk factors for cognitive decline, ...

A new way of thinking about Alzheimer’s disease has led to a discovery with the potential to stop the cognitive decline seen in patients with Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases, ...

Appropriate vascular function is essential for the maintenance of central nervous system homeostasis and is achieved through virtue of the blood-brain barrier; a specialized structure consisting of ...

These findings offer new hope for detecting and treating Alzheimer’s disease by focusing on the vascular system, a previously underexplored area in neurodegenerative research.

Vascular dementia is typically caused by cerebral small vessel disease (cSVD), which damages the brain’s small blood vessels. However, the precise mechanisms connecting cSVD to dementia remain unclear ...