Centrally located in the brain, the posterior cerebral artery makes up the lower portion of the circle of Willis. This arterial network also consists of posterior and anterior communicating arteries, ...

Researchers at Niigata University have used advanced three-dimensional (3D) imaging to reveal how amyloid β (Aβ) deposits spread along blood vessels in the human brain in cerebral amyloid angiopathy ...

Plastic pollution has moved from oceans and beaches into the most intimate corners of the human body. Tiny fragments of plastic are now being detected inside the arteries that feed the heart and brain ...

The basilar artery is part of the blood supply system for the brain and central nervous system. It is formed where the two vertebral arteries join at the base of the skull. The basilar artery carries ...

Widening, rather than blocked, brain arteries may cause a common form of stroke, new study finds. Image credit: CasarsaGuru/Getty Images A study has shed new light on what might cause one of the most ...

“Whether patients undergo a procedure to remove plaque in the carotid artery, known as a carotid endarterectomy, stenting to insert a flexible tube to hold open the narrowed part of the artery, or a ...

Researchers tracking patients with mild stroke found that abnormal widening and distortion of brain arteries, not traditional large-artery narrowing, was most strongly linked to progressive ...

Stroke survivors were more likely to have little or no disability after 90 days if a clot was removed from a large brain artery followed by the injection of the clot-dissolving medication tenecteplase ...