Dementia link to cranial blood flow

Dementia has numerous causes including the most common, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease. Now researchers have discovered with the use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanning that late-onset dementia is greatly influenced by blood flow to the brain, that is, reduced flow results in brain damage. Lower cerebral blood flow can be due to heart disease or stenosis (narrowing) of cerebral (brain) and carotid (neck) arteries. Dementia is the loss of cognitive functioning and short-term followed by long-term memory loss that result in forgetfulness, a loss of independence, and inability to have normal thought processes.

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Related Disease Topics:

• Dementia
• Alzheimer's disease
• Parkinson's disease
• Heart disease
• Cerebral artery stenosis
• Carotid artery stenosis

Related Symptom Topics:

• Short-term memory loss
• Long-term memory loss
• Forgetfulness

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About: Dementia link to cranial blood flow

Date: 30 August 2005

Source: PR Newswire

URL: http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/08-30-2005/0004096109&EDATE=

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This summary article refers to the following medical categories:

• Cause of dementia
• Cause of short-term memory loss
• Cause of long-term memory loss
• Cause of forgetfulness
• Cause of aged illness
• Cause of aged disease
• Cause of elderly illness
• Cause of elderly disease
• Cause of loss of independence
• Cause of loss of cognitive function
• Cause of vascular dementia
• Risk and dementia
• Risk and Alzheimer's disease
• Risk and Parkinson's disease
• Risk and heart disease
• Risk and cerebral artery stenosis
• Risk and carotid artery stenosis
• Risk and artery narrowing
• Risk and narrowing of the arteries
• Risk and atherosclerosis
• Risk and arteriosclerosis
• Risk and vascular dementia
• Risk and old age
• Diagnosis
• Diagnosis and MRI
• Diagnosis and magnetic resonance imaging
• Diagnosis and vascular dementia
• Diagnosis and dementia
• Diagnosis and Alzheimer's disease
• Diagnosis and cerebral blood flow
• Diagnosis and blood flow
• Diagnosis and brain blood flow
• Diagnosis and cerebral artery stenosis
• Diagnosis and carotid artery stenosis
• Research
• Research and dementia
• Research and Alzheimer's disease
• Research and Parkinson's disease
• Research and heart disease
• Research and cerebral artery stenosis
• Research and carotid artery stenosis
• Research and vascular dementia
• Research and forgetfulness
• Research and loss of cognitive functioning
• Research and loss of cognition
• Research and cerebral blood flow
• Research and brain blood flow
• Research and blood flow

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