{"id":214924,"date":"2025-05-28T01:16:59","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T06:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/fmri-analysis-method-designed-for-children-finds-unexpected-brain-health-improvements-in-aging-women"},"modified":"2025-05-28T01:16:59","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T06:16:59","slug":"fmri-analysis-method-designed-for-children-finds-unexpected-brain-health-improvements-in-aging-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/fmri-analysis-method-designed-for-children-finds-unexpected-brain-health-improvements-in-aging-women","title":{"rendered":"FMRI analysis method designed for children finds unexpected brain health improvements in aging women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fmri-analysis-method-designed-for-children-finds-unexpected-brain-health-improvements-in-aging-women2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A research team led by the Borzage Laboratory at Children\u2019s Hospital Los Angeles tested a new functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) analysis method to measure cerebrovascular health in aging adults. What they found was unexpected and validated the usefulness of this method for measuring neurovascular aging in childhood diseases.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers measured the cerebrovascular reactivity of the brains of 53 men and women between the ages of 51 to 83. Cerebrovascular reactivity is the ability of the blood vessels in the brain to dilate in response to a stimulus. The fMRI method they used\u2014known as blood oxygen level dependent-cerebrovascular reactivity (BOLD-CVR)\u2014measures the ability of the brain\u2019s vessels to flexibly regulate blood flow in response to changes in carbon dioxide levels.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow well the vessels react reveals a lot about your brain health,\u201d says lead author Bethany Sussman, Ph.D., Research Scientist, Neonatology, at CHLA. \u201cIf a certain part of the brain can\u2019t perform that function very well, that area is likely more susceptible to stroke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A research team led by the Borzage Laboratory at Children\u2019s Hospital Los Angeles tested a new functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) analysis method to measure cerebrovascular health in aging adults. What they found was unexpected and validated the usefulness of this method for measuring neurovascular aging in childhood diseases. The researchers measured the cerebrovascular reactivity [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}