Is the brain the essential in hypertension?

JR Jennings, Y Zanstra - Neuroimage, 2009 - Elsevier
The brain is typically considered a target for late stage hypertensive disease due to the high
prevalence of stroke among hypertensive patients. Research is reviewed, however, that …

From Brain to Behavior: Hypertension′ s Modulation of Cognition and Affect

JR Jennings, AF Heim - International journal of hypertension, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Accumulating evidence from animal models and human studies of essential hypertension
suggest that brain regulation of the vasculature is impacted by the disease. Human …

Pre-chemotherapy differences in visuospatial working memory in breast cancer patients compared to controls: an FMRI study

C Scherling, B Collins, J MacKenzie… - Frontiers in human …, 2011 - frontiersin.org
Introduction: Cognitive deficits are a side-effect of chemotherapy, however pre-treatment
research is limited. This study examines neurofunctional differences during working memory …

Early predictors of hypertension in prematurely born adolescents

BR Vohr, W Allan, KH Katz, KC Schneider… - Acta …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Objective: To assess the blood pressure of former preterm and term matched adolescent
controls and to identify risk factors associated with blood pressure at 16 years. Design …

[HTML][HTML] Evidence for associations between Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure test and motor skill learning in older adults

JL VanGilder, KR Lohse, K Duff, P Wang, SY Schaefer - Acta psychologica, 2021 - Elsevier
Age-related declines in motor learning may be related to poor visuospatial function. Thus,
visuospatial testing could evaluate older adults' potential for motor learning, which has …

Angiotensin II, hypertension and angiotensin II receptor antagonism: Roles in the behavioural and brain pathology of a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease

M Wiesmann, M Roelofs… - Journal of Cerebral …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Elevated angiotensin II causes hypertension and contributes to Alzheimer's disease by
affecting cerebral blood flow. Angiotensin II receptor blockers may provide candidates to …

[HTML][HTML] Amplitudes of resting-state functional networks–investigation into their correlates and biophysical properties

S Lee, JD Bijsterbosch, FA Almagro, L Elliott… - Neuroimage, 2023 - Elsevier
Resting-state fMRI studies have shown that multiple functional networks, which consist of
distributed brain regions that share synchronised spontaneous activity, co-exist in the brain …

High blood pressure at early school age among extreme preterms

BR Vohr, R Heyne, C Bann, A Das, RD Higgins… - …, 2018 - publications.aap.org
METHODS: Assessment included BP and anthropometrics. Comparisons were made by
BP≥ 90th versus< 90th percentile. Regressions were run to identify relative risk (RR) of …

Compensatory functional reorganization may precede hypertension-related brain damage and cognitive decline: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study

P Naumczyk, A Sabisz, M Witkowska, B Graff… - Journal of …, 2017 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: Our study aimed at exploring structural and functional differences in the brain
during higher cognitive processing between middle-aged hypertensive patients and controls …

Changing definitions of long-term follow-up: should “long term” be even longer?

SR Hintz, JE Newman, BR Vohr - Seminars in perinatology, 2016 - Elsevier
There have been amazing changes in outcomes of preterm (PT) infants in the past decades.
Whereas early studies reported only survival rates, Dr. Julius Hess published the first …