New research reveals how a "leaky" blood-brain barrier connects sports-related head injuries to long-term brain disease like CTE.

For decades, scientists have struggled to understand exactly how years of taking hits to the head while playing sports can ...

The neurodegenerative condition chronic traumatic encephalopathy appears to be driven by damage to the blood-brain barrier ...

Research, led by teams at Trinity College Dublin and the FutureNeuro Research Ireland Center, has pinpointed the mechanism ...

Researchers at UC San Francisco have discovered a mechanism that could explain how exercise improves cognition by shoring up the brain’s protective barrier of blood vessels. With age, this network of ...

A model of a membrane called the blood–brain barrier could transform how scientists study drug delivery to the brain, as well as diseases of the brain’s vascular network. The model combines two ...

“If we want to address BBB dysfunction, we have to have a good human BBB model,” said Ziyuan Guo, a neurobiologist and stem cell scientist at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. “The whole ...

Leakiness in the brain could explain the memory and concentration problems linked to long COVID. In patients with brain fog, MRI scans revealed signs of damaged blood vessels in their brains, ...

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