Affiliations: [a] Division of Neuropathology, Institute of Pathology, University of Göteborg, Sahlgren Hospital, S - 413 45 G6teborg, Sweden | [b] Laboratory of Neuropathology, University of Uppsala, S - 751 85 Uppsala, Sweden
Note: [] Accepted by: Editors A.L. Copley and J.-F. Stoltz
Abstract: The application of principles of biorheology, hemorheology and perihemorheology on problems of the nervous system in health and disease was suggested by Alfred L. Copley (1982, 1987). Late in 1988 Copley and Sourander considered neurobiorheology to be an appropriate term for a new branch of biorheology bridging the gap between biorheology and neurobiology. Neurobiorheology can be defined as a research field concerned with deformation behaviour of matter including flow and transportation in context with the structure and function of the nervous system at macroscopic, cellular, subcellular and molecular levels. It may be considered a basic life science with important clinical applications. Its “raison d‘être” should be to apply various ways of thinking, calculations and techniques used in biorheology to treat and if possible to solve neurobiological problems.
