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 ...

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 ...

Like the lymphatic system in the body, the glymphatic system in the brain clears metabolic waste and distributes nutrients and other important compounds. Impairments in this system may contribute to ...

Veterans with a history of Grade III mTBI show significant changes in brain waste-clearance pathways, suggesting long-term glymphatic system impact.

A new study shows that wasteosomes -- structures that act as containers for brain waste products -- indicate a malfunction of the glymphatic system, a recently discovered system that is an important ...

A new study from the Keck School of Medicine of USC has tested a biomarker linked to vascular dementia across four separate groups and proposed an explanation for how cognitive impairment arises. The ...

Problems with the brain's waste clearance system could underlie many cases of dementia and help explain why poor sleep patterns and cardiovascular risk factors such as high blood pressure increase the ...