Impaired glymphatic function — the brain’s waste clearance system — could help explain how cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors may drive dementia. In a large UK Biobank study, MRI markers of ...

An international research team led jointly by the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG), the University of Göttingen and ...

Biomedical engineers at Duke University have developed a technique to noninvasively visualize the brain's waste-removal ...

The glymphatic system in the brain, recognized as a pivotal clearance mechanism, plays a crucial role in draining waste products from the brain parenchyma to the perivascular space through ...

The autonomic nervous system orchestrates the functions of internal organs such as the heart and gut, serving as a connection between the brain and the rest of the body. It is classified in two ...

The brain’s white matter connections are thought to provide the structural basis for its functional connections between distant brain regions but how our brain selects the best structural routes for ...

Your brain ventricles are four fluid-filled chambers that produce cerebrospinal fluid. This fluid helps nourish your brain and protect it from injury. It would be easy to argue that your brain is the ...

A new Yale study reveals that major organ systems in the body aren't just passive structures operating on directions from ...

A copper-based compound restored the brain’s ability to clear toxic Alzheimer’s proteins, dramatically reducing amyloid ...