Cerebral physiology

Cerebral Blood Flow Physiology and Metabolism

The brain comprises only 2% of total body weight; however, under normal conditions, it receives 15–20% of the cardiac output and accounts for 20% of total body oxygen consumption. Because energy reserves within the brain are negligible, adequate blood flow is essential for the provision of a continuous supply of energy-producing substrates and for the removal of the byproducts of cellular metab...

Applied exercise physiology in rehabilitation of children with cerebral palsy

Alterations in cerebral physiology in women suffering from anorexia nervosa

INTRODUCTION: Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a fatal psychiatric disorder characterized by restricted eating, a pursuit of thinness, and obsessive fears of becoming fat. Early research focused primarily on associations between this aberrant behavior and psychosocial functions of the patients, but recent neuroimaging studies have identified both anatomical and functional differences in the brain in th...

The Physiology and Pathology of the Cerebral Circulation

In these pages we have the records of an extensive experimental research in the above branch of physiology, and also a summary of the previously recorded work of others. The author describes with lucidity the numerous and varied experiments he has made in the attempt to shed light upon the problem of the cerebral circulation. That he has exercised great care and ingenuity in devising and perfor...

BrainSignals Revisited: Simplifying a Computational Model of Cerebral Physiology

Multimodal monitoring of brain state is important both for the investigation of healthy cerebral physiology and to inform clinical decision making in conditions of injury and disease. Near-infrared spectroscopy is an instrument modality that allows non-invasive measurement of several physiological variables of clinical interest, notably haemoglobin oxygenation and the redox state of the metabol...