Whole-body MRI (WB-MRI) may improve ALS diagnostic certainty. WB-MRI assesses muscle swelling (edema) as a marker for lower ...

If that involuntary action seems to yield a welcomed head-clearing effect, new science suggests that just might be true.

New research suggests yawning might help your ‘glymphatic system’—aka the brain’s waste clearance pathway. In a small study of 22 participants who underwent MRI scans, yawning sent cerebrospinal fluid ...

Yawning has an unusual and unexpected effect on the flow of fluid protecting the brain, a recent study reveals, though it's not yet clear what the impact of this shift might be. According to ...

Cognitive impairment is a common complication of chronic kidney disease (CKD), but its underlying mechanisms are not fully understood. This study aims to investigate the glymphatic system function in ...

The clinical relevance of glymphatic dysfunction in patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) remains unclear. This study aimed to evaluate glymphatic system function in patients with aneurysmal SAH ...

Summary: Researchers have discovered that problems with the brain’s waste-clearing system—the glymphatic system—may significantly raise the risk of developing dementia. In one of the largest studies ...

Cerebrospinal fluid-interstitial fluid (CSF–ISF) exchange is central to brain clearance, yet quantitative measurements in humans have been lacking. We establish an MRI approach that enables ...

It’s been known for millennia that the human body accumulates waste as a result of day-to-day functioning, but it’s now recognized that the awake, active brain also builds up waste that negatively ...

You can see it coming in right there, that little spot,” says neuroscientist and engineer Laura Lewis. A remarkably bright pulsing dot has appeared on the monitor in front of us. We are watching, in ...