This depiction of hydrocephalus shows the brain and its ventricles. The dark areas indicate the massive enlargement of the ventricles that can occur during hydrocephalus.  Hydrocephalus, commonly ...

A CSF leak within the spinal column is the most common identifiable cause of spontaneous intracranial hypotension. 3 The mechanism underlying headache and neurologic manifestations is presumed to be ...

Immune cells within the cerebrospinal fluid can offer a glimpse of the inflammatory conditions within the brain. According to a study published December 7 in Cell, those immune cells markedly change ...

A popular hypothesis for how the brain clears molecular waste, which may help explain why sleep feels refreshing, is a subject of debate. Encased in the skull, perched atop the spine, the brain has a ...

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) affects over 69 million people yearly, and post‑TBI cognitive impairment (CTTI) often persists for years. The brain‑lymphatic axis – the central glymphatic system and ...

I had written before about the breakthrough studies of mice that showed lymphatic flushing of brain tissue while they slept. Now this phenomenon has been confirmed in humans. During human sleep, ...

Post-radiation cisplatin and etoposide as systemic treatment in newly diagnosed adult medulloblastomas: A retrospective, single institution, longitudinal evaluation of clinical outcomes and toxicity.

A large number of studies over the past 20 years have quantified tau protein in the cerebrospinal fluid of people with Alzheimer’s disease, consistently finding elevated levels of tau in AD—such that ...