Finally, experts suggested that he might not suffer from a traditional psychiatric disorder caused by some inborn biochemical glitch, but from a vasculitis — a
swelling of blood vessels in the brain, provoked by a hostile outside force.
Scientists from Trinity College Dublin and the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) have discovered that
abnormalities of blood vessels in the brain may play a major role in the development of schizophrenia, a debilitating condition that affects around 1 % of people in Ireland.
Jansen is among those who think that a compromised network
of blood vessels in the brain triggers Alzheimer's by allowing toxins to cross the blood - brain barrier, potentially leading to damage to neurons and inflammation.
To replicate the brain in miniature, Parker and his team started with an elastic substrate about the size of a fingernail, then added a layer of cells on top to mimic
networks of blood vessels in the brain.
«If you laid out
all of the blood vessels in your brain end - to - end, they would stretch halfway to the moon (about 120,000 miles).»
1/4/2007 Bottleneck in Blood Supply Makes Brain Vulnerable to Strokes A team of University of California, San Diego physicists and neuroscientists has discovered a bottleneck in the network
of blood vessels in the brain that makes it vulnerable to strokes.
Researchers revealed 8 key triggers which seem to raise the risk of intracranial aneurysm, a weakness within the wall
of a blood vessel in the brain that commonly results in it ballooning.