In order to perform the CSF Oligoclonal Bands test, a sample of your cerebrospinal fluid is retrieved. The most common way to attain a sample is through a lumbar puncture, also known as a spinal ...

These structures allow cerebrospinal fluid to flow through the brain ... "You can actually see dark perivascular spaces in the brain turn bright," said co-lead researcher Dr. Erin Yamamoto ...

Years before tau tangles show up in brain scans of patients with Alzheimer's disease, a biomarker test developed at the ...

For years, scientists thought the brain lacked a lymphatic system ... help keep its shape—but scientists hadn’t yet figured out the exact exit route cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and molecules take. In a ...

Cerebrospinal fluid ... any given time due to constant absorption and replenishment in the brain. This fluid circulates through the ventricles of the brain, the central canal of the spinal ...

Analysis of cerebrospinal ... This fluid is produced predominantly in the choroid plexuses of the brain, circulated in a cranial-to-caudal direction through the ventricular system and sub ...

Medtronic’s Becker and Exacta devices provide complete closed systems for draining cerebrospinal fluid from the brain. The devices also enable healthcare professionals to monitor fluid pressure ...

A new study from Cedars-Sinai suggests that some people diagnosed with behavioral-variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) ...

Earlier studies done mostly on mice discovered that the brain had a system that flushed its tissues with cerebrospinal fluid, which carried away waste products in a process called glymphatic clearance ...

This doctrine states that the volume of the intracranial contents (brain, cerebrospinal fluid [CSF], arterial and venous blood and any pathological mass) are related to the pressure within the ...

Toward the bottom of the brain are more primitive structures, including the cerebellum and brain stem. These also fulfill critical functions. Running through parts of the brain are a dozen pairs ...