Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A picture of the microscope system. (CREDIT: Tatsuya Osaki) For decades, scientists have worked to peer deeper into the brain.

A hidden waste-removal pathway in the brain has finally been caught in action. Using cutting-edge MRI scans, researchers ...

Our bodies rely on their lymphatic system to drain excessive fluids and remove waste from tissues, feeding those back into the blood stream. It’s a complex yet efficient cleaning mechanism that works ...

Impaired glymphatic function — the brain’s waste clearance system — could help explain how cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors may drive dementia. In a large UK Biobank study, MRI markers of ...

Aging compromises the lymphatic vessels surrounding the brain, disabling waste drainage from the brain and impacting cognitive function. Researchers boosted lymphatic vessel integrity in old mice and ...

The brain shows a capacity to recover from traumatic injury, which somewhat contradicts the widely accepted idea that neurons do not regenerate. So how is recovery possible? In a new JNeurosci paper, ...

Psychologist Prof. Dr Christian Doeller from the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences has students in Leipzig play computer games in a scanner to investigate how their brains ...