A rush of blood to the head - anger increases blood flow

Thursday, July 2, 2009 - 21:49 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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