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

CSF Assay Moderately Accurate for Diagnosing Sporadic CJD Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a fairly accurate screening tool for distinguishing between Alzheimer's disease (AD) and frontotemporal ...

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

(HealthDay News) – Adding data from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), fluorine 18 fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET), and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers to routine ...

MRI scans from nearly 40,000 people revealed biomarkers linked to defective toxin clearance in the brain predicted the susceptibility to dementia later in life.

Neurofilament light chains in the serum and cerebrospinal fluid show strong potential for monitoring neurodegenerative and ...

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

There is limited information regarding the effects of spaceflight on the anatomical configuration of the brain and on cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) spaces. We used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to ...

It's not snot. It's leaking brain fluid. That's what Greg Phillpotts learned after suffering from a runny nose for 5 years, as described by Josh Chapin for ABC 11 Eyewitness News. Here's a Tweet from ...

Chiari malformation, an anomaly of the posterior cranial fossa, also known as Arnold–Chiari malformation, was described in autopsies by Hans Chiari, an Austrian pathologist, in 1891. He defined four ...