Brain Health - a small matter of the blood vessels
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- Edinburgh Neuroscience Christmas Lecture 2018: Brain Health - a small matter of the blood vessels
Edinburgh Neuroscience's 2018 annual Christmas Public Lecture explored why our blood vessels are so critical to the health of our brains. Professor Joanna Wardlaw is one of Edinburgh's pioneering neuroscientists and a Principal Investigator in the new UK Dementia Research Institute at the University of Edinburgh.
The human brain is like a very complex computer, possibly the most sophisticated biological structure in the known universe. It needs a lot of energy and oxygen to work. How does it get this? Can it store energy? Where does the waste go and how does it get out? Can there really be 650 km of blood vessels inside every brain?
In this Christmas lecture, I will tell you about some of the clever ways that the blood vessel and brain cells work together to deliver the right amounts of energy and remove waste products. Do the brain blood vessels do more than that to help the brain? And why it is that when diseases of the brain blood vessels are amongst the commonest and most devastating in the whole world, do we still know so little about what goes wrong with them and how to make it better? I will explain some of the ways in which researchers are trying to make brain blood vessel diseases less troublesome.
Professor Joanna Wardlaw, CBE, FMedSci, FRSE, is Professor of Applied Neuroimaging and Consultant Neuroradiologist at the University of Edinburgh and NHS Lothian. She is a Principal Researcher in the new UK Dementia Research Institute at the University of Edinburgh. She has worked for many years to understand the brain and its blood supply, and on treatments to improve blood flow to the brain, such as the clot busting drugs now used routinely to treat acute stroke.
She now focuses on a much more complicated problem of the brain and its blood flow called ‘small vessel disease’, which, as well as being a common cause of stroke, is also a common cause of dementia. She and her colleagues have been instrumental in advancing understanding of the causes of small vessel disease, identifying and now testing possible treatments.
A Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and of the UK’s Academy of Medical Sciences, she was the first woman to be awarded the American Heart Association’s Feinberg Award for Clinical Advances in Stroke in 2018, was one of 25 Women in Medicine recognized by the UK Royal Medical Colleges 2017 and was made a CBE for services to Medicine and Neuroscience in 2016.
As a nonmedically trained 81 year old, thank you. With a history of TIA's over 6 years, where I was told, "No Residual effect", to my concerns about the reduction of my artistic talent and quality of thinking, I have some understanding of what is happening to me. I have gone through many Neurologist who don't help, who disrespect me as a patient and leave me to my travels to find
quality of life.
I'm still seeking answers but time is running out. Vascular dementia comes with depression. I say, why not. F.J. Brown
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So perfectly explained!
My 86 year old mother in law has been battling dizziness & nausea, vomiting….for over a month. At first they treated her for vertigo but no success. Now after and MRI they want her to go to a specialist because they say her blood vessels to the brain are very small & tiny spatters appearing through out vessels. She does not have dementia nor does she have cognitive issues. She does have high blood pressure…had it for years and controlled with meds. We are wondering what might be wrong & if there is anything we can do to help her feel better while she waits 6 weeks to get in to the specialist….and they may not even have answers? It’s so frustrating to see her sick and feeling helpless. Any suggestions of natural ways to open up these tiny vessels or not? :(
Excellent talk - really interesting!
Stumbled on your video......thank you for this info
yes, diagnosed with this white matter lesions (18 lesions approx) no risk factors as mentioned but migraines and hashimoto, i am scared since i am only 47 😞
White matter disease or just lesions? What treatment have you been given?
Best wishes !
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Excellent. Thank you.
Really nice talk. What is the name of the speaker?
The development of our brain was done by our Great Creator God not by accident.
Is APOE4 abd blood brain barrier issues considered a vascular disease?
For anyone interested, you can look up this study.
A team of international researchers has found that the Tsimane indigenous people experience less brain atrophy than their American and European peers.
The decrease in their brain volumes with age is 70% slower than in Western populations. Accelerated brain volume loss can be a sign of dementia.
SEVENTY percent slower.
USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology
What is "be true"? Are you saying beet juice?
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Vasculitis of the brain not great