In search of a marker of altered cerebrovascular function in hypertension: Analysis of the fractional amplitude of low-frequency fluctuations in UK Biobank resting state fMRI data

The selfish brain mechanism proposes that in some patients with impaired cerebral blood flow (CBF) or cerebrovascular function, hypertension may develop as a compensatory mechanism that aims to maintain CBF by increasing systemic blood pressure through an increase in cardiovascular sympathetic tone....

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Published in:	Cerebral Circulation - Cognition and Behavior
Main Authors:	Owen Bleddyn Woodward, Ian Driver, Emma Hart, Richard Wise
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Elsevier 2024-01-01
Subjects:	Cerebral blood flow Hypertension Cerebrovascular reactivity Brainstem
Online Access:	http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666245023000405