Scientists have discovered that rhythmic oscillations of a specific neurotransmitter play a vital role in clearing toxic proteins from the brain during non-rapid eye movement (non-REM) sleep. These ...

We also discuss the relevant role of the CSF and its exit routes in mediating WC. Recent discoveries of the glymphatic system and meningeal lymphatic vessels, and their relevance to brain WC are ...

The glymphatic system is the means through which the brain processes and removes waste using cerebrospinal fluid. Sleep Popular sleeping pill shown to block brain's critical cleaning cycle ...

Termed the "glymphatic system," it acts like a series of pipes surrounding the blood vessels in the brain through which cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) moves. As the CSF flows through these channels it ...

4.6 AQPs and the glymphatic system in the brain edema The glymphatic system (GS) is a recently discovered microscopic fluid clearance system composed of astrocytic perivascular tunnels that eliminate ...

What has puzzled researchers and philosophers for many centuries is the ‘why’ of sleep, along with the ‘how’. We human animals know from experience that we need to sleep, ...

along with cerebral blood and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), combine during non-rapid eye movement (non-REM) sleep, essentially power the brain’s waste-removing glymphatic system. “Instead ...