Arterial Stiffness and the Brain
Fig. 7.1 Anatomy of the cerebral blood supply. (a) Circle of Willis. (b) The arterial supply of the deep white matter arises from branches of the ACA and the MCA….
NEUROSURGERY
A Systematic Review of Reviews to Examine the Association Between Hypertension and Cognitive Impairments in Adults
Fig. 1.1 Flow of potential reviews through the screening process 5.2.2 Quality of Included Reviews The overall quality of the five reviews was moderate (Table 1.1). All five reviews specified…
Sex Differences in Neural Regulation of Hypertension
Fig. 10.1 Summary of sex differences in neural regions of cardiovascular regulation. SFO projections stimulate sympathoexcitatory PVN projections to the IML, as well as indirect projections (dashed line) via the…
Hypertension and Age-Related Cognitive Decline
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016Hélène Girouard (ed.)Hypertension and the Brain as an End-Organ Target10.1007/978-3-319-25616-0_2 2. Hypertension and Age-Related Cognitive Decline Laurence Desjardins-Crépeau1, 2 and Louis Bherer1, 3 (1) Centre de Recherche de l’Institut Universitaire de…
Hypertension and Brain Inflammation: Role of RAS-Induced Glial Activation
Fig. 9.1 Hypothesis for PRO/PRR and Ang II/AT1R interactions in pre-autonomic nuclei during neurogenic hypertension. RAS-induced astrogliosis increases pro-inflammatory cytokine expression and microglial recruitment at pre-autonomic nuclei such as the…
DSMS and Online Algorithms
Fig. 14.1 Block diagram of the EEG-ECG based online seizure detection architecture The data captured from the sensors (where N are the EEG electrodes plus one ECG channel) have been…
Offline Analysis Server and Offline Algorithms
Fig. 12.1 Pipeline of the K-complex detection methodology First step: In the first step, all the local minima from each available signal are detected and considered as candidate K-complexes. The…
Personal Health Record
Fig. 11.1 Components of the ISO/EN 13606 association (2009) The ISO/EN 13606 is a subset of the full openEHR specification [9]. Within the shared classes the main difference between with…
Sleep Features and Underlying Mechanisms Related to Epilepsy and Its Long Term Monitoring
Fig. 3.1 Sleep macro- and microstructure. (a) Sleep time (S) is controlled by both circadian and homeostatic factors, the latter building up as waking (W) progresses and diminishing slowly after…
Mobile Sensors for Multiparametric Monitoring in Epileptic Patients
Fig. 8.1 Diagram of mobile sensor system The mobile sensor system may have different signal transducers or a multi-channel input (in parallel or multiplexed) connected to one microprocessor. The signal…
