Statins, established for cholesterol lowering and cardiovascular prevention, are thought to have a role in SAH given their ...

The vertebral artery is the blood vessel that supplies the back of the brain. Narrowing of this vessel (vertebral artery stenosis) is an important cause of stroke, but not everyone who has vertebral ...

It's been recognized for some time that Alzheimer's disease affects brain regions differently and that tau—a protein known to ...

The brain doesn't merely register time—it structures it, according to new research from the Kavli Institute for Systems ...

Stressor-evoked brain activity in midlife adults is linked to preclinical atherosclerosis via stress-related blood pressure.

Figure 4. Digital subtraction angiography with early and late phase demonstrating (A) left subclavian artery occlusion with (B) retrograde vertebral filling of proximal subclavian artery.

Cerebrovascular diseases (CVDs) remain a leading cause of global disability and mortality. Digital Subtraction Angiography (DSA) sequences, recognized as the gold standard for diagnosing CVDs, can ...

A brain aneurysm (also called a cerebral aneurysm or an intracranial aneurysm) is a ballooning arising from a weakened area in the wall of a blood vessel in the brain. If the brain aneurysm expands ...

A 48-year-old male presented with headache two weeks after sustaining a neck injury playing hockey. His first CT brain scan (fig 1) revealed a right hyperdense middle cerebral artery sign (HMCAS).

Middle cerebral artery stenosis is a less common occlusive disease in patients in western countries than in Asian patients. 1 The introduction of screening for MCA stenosis in stroke patients by use ...

Letter Ipsilateral axial lateropulsion as an initial symptom of vertebral artery occlusion M Arai Department of Neurology, Seirei Mikatahara General Hospital, Hamamatsu, Japan Correspondence to: ...