1.   Among participants in the Framingham Heart Study, much higher rates of atherosclerosis in the arteries feeding the brain were found among those with high blood levels of homocysteine.

2.   Behind the angle of the jaw, each divides into an external carotid that feeds the face and an internal carotid that feeds the brain.

3.   Blame it on chemistry, because you may not be feeding your face, you may be feeding your brain.

4.   A blood clot or some other particle of matter can block a key artery or blood vessel that feeds the brain.

5.   But, then again, more facts and bones and books surface every day, making it easier for amateur paleontologists to feed their brains.

6.   If a piece of a clot breaks off and travels to an artery that feeds the brain, the blockage of blood flow likely will cause a stroke.

7.   In the last two decades there were occasional reports of advanced clotting in arteries feeding the brains of children with homocystinuria, as the genetic condition is called.

8.   Two of the tests involve the use of high-frequency sound waves to assess potential blockages in the arteries that feed the brain.

9.   When I go to bed, I have fed my brain with food, and I have tended to my corpus with medical advice.

10.   But the vast majority are ischemic strokes, which happen when arteries feeding the brain are blocked by a clot.