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Fluid keeps your brain from crushing itself and shields your spine from shock – a neurologist explains what happens when it stops working

Your brain produces around a pint of cerebrospinal fluid each day. Archibald Church, Diseases of the nervous system (1908)/Internet Archive via Flickr Cerebrospinal fluid, or CSF, is a clear, ...
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Billy Joel has excess fluid in his brain – a neurologist explains what happens when this protective liquid gets out of balance

Cerebrospinal fluid, or CSF, is a clear, colorless liquid that plays a crucial role in maintaining the health and function of your central nervous system. It cushions the brain and spinal cord, ...
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Hydrocephalus: Understanding Surgical Treatments & Recovery

Hydrocephalus is an excess of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) in the brain’s ventricles. Surgery is the first-line and most effective treatment. The two primary surgeries are the Ventriculoperitoneal (VP) ...
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Overlooked brain organ plays key role in promoting brain repair after stroke

Scientists found the choroid plexus and cerebrospinal fluid play a key role in maintaining a pool of newly born neurons to repair the adult brain after injury. University of Cincinnati researchers ...
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Billy Joel's brain fluid imbalance: what it means

May 28 (UPI) --Cerebrospinal fluid, or CSF, is a clear, colorless liquid that plays a crucial role in maintaining the health and function of your central nervous system. It cushions the brain and ...
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CSF Hugs Arteries to Squeeze into the Brain

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 ...

What really happens to your brain when you don’t sleep? It is worse than you think

Brain's nightly cleaning cycle, crucial for clearing waste like beta-amyloid, falters with sleep loss. This disruption ...

University of Toronto Researchers Report Real-Time Brain Fluid Modulation Using Vielight Photobiomodulation

Published in Brain Stimulation, the Baycrest/Rotman team used fMRI to show rapid CSF dynamics changes after brief pulsed PBM sessions. Regions of interest. MRI regions of interest used to quantify CSF ...
The Scientist

A Minimally Invasive Way to Treat Cerebrospinal Fluid Accumulation in the Brain

In this Innovation Spotlight, Dan Levangie, president and chief executive officer of CereVasc, discusses a new treatment strategy for NPH using an endovascularly implantable CSF shunt that minimizes ...
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Billy Joel’s brain fluid imbalance: what it means

May 28 (UPI) --Cerebrospinal fluid, or CSF, is a clear, colorless liquid that plays a crucial role in maintaining the health and function of your central nervous system. It cushions the brain and ...