Brain metabolism

Your cardiovascular health also impacts your brain metabolism: Study

“Although everybody knows about the importance of caring for ourselves and controlling cardiovascular risk factors in order to avoid a heart attack, the association of these same risk factors with cognitive decline may increase awareness of the need to acquire healthy habits from the earliest stages of life,” says Dr Valentín Fuster, the lead author of the study.

Feb 17, 2021, 16:52 PM IST

Researchers identify subtype of autism that regulate cholesterol metabolism, brain development

The team identified the shared molecular roots between lipid dysfunction and autism through DNA analysis of brain samples--findings that they then confirmed by examining medical records of individuals with autism.

Aug 19, 2020, 21:06 PM IST