Treat the Medical Conditions That May Be Robbing Your Memory and Thinking Skills: Diabetes, thyroid disease, and other health problems may cause cognitive problems, but treatment can often reverse the effects.

THYROID diseases; VITAMIN B12; INTERNAL carotid artery

And even with all that circulation, the brain still has to operate a complex system of openings and closings within its blood vessels to allow certain parts of the brain to receive more blood flow when activated than other parts of the brain that aren 't in demand at the moment. Neurologist Jonathan Rosand, MD, co-director of the Henry and Allison McCance Center for Brain Health at Massachusetts General Hospital, says that one of the best motivators to help his patients understand the urgent necessity to manage their high blood pressure is to talk about someone they know who may have had a stroke or who otherwise suffered brain changes that led to cognitive impairment. [Extracted from the article]

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