Intervening in the pathways that disrupt the brain’s waste clearance system could help prevent or slow Alzheimer’s disease ...

A new study has found that people with an impaired glymphatic system, which helps the brain remove toxins and is mostly ...

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 ...

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

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

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.

Since the characterization of prions in the 1970s, there has been progress in diagnostic testing, which at one time required brain specimens from biopsy or autopsy, with surgical risks for the patient ...

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 ...

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