vascular dementia

by University of Vermont edited by Sadie Harley, reviewed by Robert Egan  Editors’ notes The microvasculature of a brain imaged using two-photon laser scanning microscopy. Credit: Asser Bedair, Ph.D., Larner College of Medicine A possible new treatment for impaired brain blood flow and related dementias is on the horizon. Research by scientists at the University of Vermont Robert […]

by University of California, Los Angeles edited by Sadie Harley, reviewed by Robert Egan   Credit: CC0 Public Domain A new study from UCLA Health has uncovered how inflammation in brain blood vessels exacerbates damage in vascular dementia and demonstrated that targeting this process with a repurposed drug can promote brain repair and functional recovery in mice. Published