CHICAGO: Four universities are to join forces to study how diet, exercise and other factors affect the amount of blood that reaches brain tissue and how that may affect memory.
The project will establish a new doctoral training center for PhD students.
Researchers say that a reduction in blood flow can impair memory and is one of the known early changes in Alzheimer’s disease and dementia. The new research program will investigate various aspects of the relationship between blood flow and the changes within the brain that cause dementia…