Cognitive impairment is common in patients with end-stage renal disease treated with hemodialysis. Despite this well-recognized link, the etiology of cognitive impairment in hemodialysis patients has ...

Cognitive functions, also known as intellectual functions, encompass thinking, understanding, memory, language, computation, and judgment, and are performed in the cerebrum. The prefrontal cortex (PFC ...

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 ...

Blocking calcium channels in brain capillaries may enhance blood flow and alleviate early-stage Alzheimer's damage, new study suggests. Study: Inhibiting Ca 2+ channels in Alzheimer’s disease model ...

A new study in rats provides evidence that tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD) have opposing effects on brain function—and that combining the two produces more muted changes than THC ...

Burlington, Vt.— A team of UVM scientists led by Mark Nelson, Ph.D., from the Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont, has uncovered a novel mechanism that reshapes our understanding ...

A new study published in the journal of Physiological Measurement found elevated HbA1c to be associated with greater vascular ...