Emerging research suggests that even mild hits to the head may damage tiny lymphatic vessels that clear toxic chemicals and ...

The interaction between the brain and the vascular system could hold the key to lowering disease risk. According to the ...

Every year, millions of people around the world suffer ischemic strokes that block blood flow to a region of the brain.

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis report they have found a way around that problem by targeting the network of vessels that drain waste from the brain.

Sildenafil lowers vessel resistance, enhances blood flow response to carbon dioxide, and increases blood flow in both small and large brain vessels. And, compared with cilostazol, a similar drug ...

Moyamoya disease is a rare, progressive cerebrovascular disorder caused by the shrinking of major brain blood vessels resulting in decreased blood flow to certain brain regions and eventually can lead ...

In a study published today (July 24) in Nature, researchers show that there is a hot spot of meningeal lymphatic vessels at the base of the rodent skull that is specialized to drain CSF and allow ...

A brain aneurysm is an area of weakness in a brain blood vessel that over time can grow larger and thinner. Aneurysms are dangerous because they can grow and eventually rupture allowing blood to leak ...

The brain’s trash collection system ... beads into the cerebrospinal fluid to measure bead flow through the meninges, lymphatic vessels and lymph nodes. By looking at the meninges and lymph ...