A rush of blood to the head -- anger increases blood flow
Friday, July 3, 2009 - 02:28
in Health & Medicine
Mental stress causes carotid artery dilation and increases brain blood flow. A series of ultrasound experiments, described in BioMed Central's open access journal Cardiovascular Ultrasound, also found that this dilatory reflex was absent in people with high blood pressure.
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