The habit that may be quietly raising your risk of dementia and Alzheimer's? Not getting enough sleep. According to the study, participants who reported having "poor sleep quality" demonstrated ...

Once thought not to exist, the lymphatic system of our central nervous system is referred to as the glymphatic system and is made up of water channels, pores, and other clearance pathways. It is ...

The brain has its own waste disposal system—known as the glymphatic system—that's thought to be more active when we sleep. There is still some debate about how this glymphatic system works in humans, ...

A new device that monitors the waste-removal system of the brain may help to prevent Alzheimer's and other neurological diseases, according to a study published today in Nature Biomedical Engineering.

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Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Glymphatic clearance may be a reliable marker of longitudinal cognitive and motor decline in Parkinson’s. The ...

Columbia scientists have found that boosting the performance of a self-cleansing system in the brain helps flush amyloid and tau toxins from the brains of mice and improves the animals' cognition.