The brain and arterial hypertension

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Abstract
Traditional and well-substantiated neurologic thinking dictates that [human] arterial hypertension and the brain are related to each other in a casual way, in the direction that arterial hypertension leads to the ruin of the brain. There is another, less-explored, less-substantiated direction of thinking in the brain-arterial hypertension equation with which neurologists are just beginning to become familiar. This new direction proclaims that physiologic disturbances of the brain may cause arterial hypertension. This less familiar relationship points hesitatingly in the direction that some cases of essential hypertension may reflect altered function or structure of discrete brain areas. Advances in the control of vascular hypertension and all of its effects may depend on further understanding of a brain disorder.