The blood-brain barrier prevents xenobiotics from entering the central nervous system. Growing evidence indicates that neurotoxins, such as tributyltin, manganese and nanoparticles, may disrupt the ...
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 ...
The cerebrospinal fluid from young mice is awash with factors that keep the brain sharp. Now, scientists led by Tony Wyss-Coray at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, report that when ...
Abnormal clumps of proteins like α-synuclein, amyloid beta and tau are associated with neurodegenerative conditions like ...
We all know the feeling, but now we know, what actually happens to us.
Sleep deprivation triggers CSF movements during wakefulness, briefly pushing the brain into a sleep-like state that disrupts ...