Older adults with cancer are nearly 70 percent more likely to suffer a stroke or heart attack in the year prior to their diagnosis compared with peers without a cancer diagnosis in that same time period, according to new research by Weill Cornell Medicine, NewYork-Presbyterian and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center investigators.
The paper, published Dec. 21 in the...
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Astrocytes have many functions in the brain and have recently been shown to modulate cognition. However, it remains unclear exactly how astrocytes affect cognitive function and if those mechanisms are impaired by aging or disease.
