Cognitive impairment is common in patients with end-stage renal disease treated with hemodialysis. Despite this well-recognized link, the etiology of cognitive impairment in hemodialysis patients has ...

Cognitive functions, also known as intellectual functions, encompass thinking, understanding, memory, language, computation, and judgment, and are performed in the cerebrum. The prefrontal cortex (PFC ...

Enhancing prefrontal cortex (PFC) cognitive functions requires identifying suitable exercises that increase cerebral blood flow. A recent study using functional near-infrared spectroscopy found that ...

Arterial spin labeling (ASL) is a non‐invasive magnetic resonance imaging technique that exploits magnetically labelled arterial blood water as an endogenous tracer to quantitatively assess cerebral ...

Measuring blood flow in the brain is critical for understanding response to a range of neurological problems, including stroke, traumatic brain injury (TBI) and vascular dementia. Obtaining such ...

A recently published study in the Journal of Applied Physiology suggests that erythritol, a widely used non-nutritive sweetener in sugar-free and low-calorie foods, may impair brain vascular cell ...