Problems with the brain's waste clearance system could underlie many cases of dementia and help explain why poor sleep ...

Your brain produces around a pint of cerebrospinal fluid each day. Archibald Church, Diseases of the nervous system (1908)/Internet Archive via Flickr Cerebrospinal fluid, or CSF, is a clear, ...

Researchers have discovered that problems with the brain’s waste-clearing system—the glymphatic system—may significantly ...

There are currently estimated to be 982,000 people with dementia in the UK, but more than a third of people with the ...

Deep sleep mobilizes a peculiar interaction between neural waves and brain fluid, that is crucial for memory consolidation ...

Researchers led by Masako Tamaki at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science in Japan report a link between deep sleep and ...

"For the first time, we found that empagliflozin, an established diabetes and heart medication, reduced markers of brain ...

A popular hypothesis for how the brain clears molecular waste, which may help explain why sleep feels refreshing, is a subject of debate. Encased in the skull, perched atop the spine, the brain has a ...

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