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 ...

Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is a clear and watery liquid that flows in and around the brain and spinal cord. Its functions include protecting parts of the nervous system, delivering nutrients and ...

Pulsatile CSF flow dynamics increase during epochs with slower reaction times and attentional failures. (CREDIT: Nature) By 10 a.m., having had no sleep, subjects were lying in MRI scanners engaging ...

A device that massages the face and neck boosts the brain’s waste disposal system, suggesting it could reduce the severity of conditions like Alzheimer’s disease. Our brains are bathed in ...