Problems with the brain's waste clearance system could underlie many cases of dementia and help explain why poor sleep patterns and cardiovascular risk factors such as high blood pressure increase the ...
The space between the arachnoid and pia meningeal layers encasing the brain is a landscape of connective tissue, blood vessels, and cerebrospinal fluid. Scientists debate how that fluid moves within ...
Sleep is often described as the body’s recovery period, but for the brain, it is more like a nightly cleaning cycle. During deep rest, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) circulates through brain tissue, ...
A major international study has uncovered a new biological clue that could help predict dementia long before memory problems arise. Researchers from the University of Cambridge and Zhejiang University ...
New, potentially pioneering research in the Purdue University Sleep and Developmental Studies Laboratory is examining deep sleep’s role in “sloshing” metabolic waste from the brain. The study led by A ...
video: This movie demonstrates the type of imaging used in the present article, called 2-photon microscopy. The authors used a specially-designed microscope to image the surface of the brain in a live ...
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind.–Researchers at Purdue University are looking at the connection between sleep and Alzheimer’s disease. “Ultimately, we know there is an early onset type that influences people as ...