Well done Will. One our hospital DPT interns was sharing the article below during a recent presentation. In a nutshell, healthy blood flow = healthy tissue function at both micro and macro levels. Next Gen research and in fact practice, includes stem cells inserted directly into the brain to improve lost neural function post stroke etc...Example: https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-ne...-patients.html
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Molecular Psychiatry (2015) 20, 585–593; doi:10.1038/mp.2014.114; published online 14 October 2014
Vascular hippocampal plasticity after aerobic exercise in older adults
Aerobic exercise in young adults can induce vascular plasticity in the hippocampus, a critical region for recall and recognition memory. In a mechanistic proof-of-concept intervention over 3 months, we investigated whether healthy older adults (60–77 years) also show such plasticity. Regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) and volume (rCBV) were measured with gadolinium-based perfusion imaging (3 Tesla magnetic resonance image (MRI)). Hippocampal volumes were assessed by high-resolution 7 Tesla MRI. Fitness improvement correlated with changes in hippocampal perfusion and hippocampal head volume. Perfusion tended to increase in younger, but to decrease in older individuals. The changes in fitness, hippocampal perfusion and volume were positively related to changes in recognition memory and early recall for complex spatial objects.
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