Costantino Iadecola: “The idea is that alzheimer’s could have a vascular element was not part of our thinking”

Costantino Iadecola: “The idea is that alzheimer’s could have a vascular element was not part of our thinking”

Dr Costantino Iadecola is Director and President of the Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute and Anne Parrish Titzell Professor of Neurology at Weill Cornell Medicine. His research focusses on the basic mechanisms of neurovascular function and on the molecular and cell abnormalities underlying ischaemic brain injury, neurodegeneration and other dysfunctions associated with cognitive deterioration....
Dra. Hélène Girouard: “In alzheimer’s disease, high blood pressure is the main risk factor after age”

Dra. Hélène Girouard: “In alzheimer’s disease, high blood pressure is the main risk factor after age”

Dr Hélène Girouard leads the Pharmacology and Physiology Laboratory at Montreal University (Canada). Her laboratory is interested in the mechanisms controlling cerebral circulation and the mechanisms underlying cerebral neurovascular coupling (NVC) in healthy, aged or diseased organisms. Although this area has been the subject of research for over 100 years, we still do not ...