Tracking the flow of cerebrospinal fluid reveals an unprecedented view of the brain's glymphatic system

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

Deep breathing couples CSF and venous flow dynamics

Venous system pathologies have increasingly been linked to clinically relevant disorders of CSF circulation whereas the exact coupling mechanisms still remain unknown. In this work, flow dynamics of ...
Nature

Visualizing flow in an intact CSF network using optical coherence tomography: implications for human congenital hydrocephalus

Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) flow in the brain ventricles is critical for brain development. Altered CSF flow dynamics have been implicated in congenital hydrocephalus (CH) characterized by the ...
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A Facial Massage May Get the CSF Flowing

Massage might help your brain flow regain its mojo. On June 4 in Nature, researchers led by Gou Young Koh at the Institute for Basic Science in Daejeon, South Korea, mapped the labyrinth of lymphatics ...
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Waves of CSF Flow Into the Brain During Sleep

The brain's cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) pulses during deep sleep and this appears to be tied to brain wave activity and blood flow, an exploratory study showed. Large oscillations of CSF inflow to the ...