New research from Columbia University shows the importance of blood flow and the endothelium in brain health. ““Once we realized the importance of endothelial signaling in the regulation of blood flow in the brain,” Hillman adds, “we wondered whether overlooking the vascular endothelium might have led researchers to misinterpret their results.”

"Our latest finding gives us a new way of thinking about brain disease—that some conditions assumed to be caused by faulty neurons could actually be problems with faulty blood vessels”


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Understanding how and why the brain regulates its blood flow could provide important clues to understanding early brain development, disease, and aging.