During the day, waste products such as lactic acid and worn-out proteins build up in the brain. When we sleep at night, waves ...

The human brain flushes out waste products while we sleep and now it seems that certain sounds might enhance the process ...

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 ...

Hydrocephalus, commonly referred to as "water on the brain," is a dangerous and potentially deadly condition that can harm the brain. For more than a century, physicians have believed that the buildup ...

Sleep is profoundly restorative for the brain, partly because it clears solutes and waste products. This flushing works best during the deepest periods of sleep, but why is that? Data from the lab of ...

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 ...

Implementing improved pathologic nodal (pN) staging during non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) resection: A population-based study. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2018 ASCO Annual Meeting I.

We think of our brains as many things: the seat of the mind, the place where our memories live, or perhaps the world’s most powerful supercomputer, but you might be surprised to learn that our brains ...