A new study finds Treponema pallidum DNA in the cerebrospinal fluid of HIV-negative patients at every stage of syphilis, ...

Brain tumors occupy one of the most diagnostically awkward positions in all of medicine. They sit behind the blood-brain ...

Treatment for glioma has long relied on MRI imaging to track tumor markers and treatment response. But findings from a team at the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center, led by Carl Koschmann, ...

Up to three quarters of patients receiving cancer chemotherapy suffer from "chemo brain"—a long-term side effect that makes it harder to remember things, maintain attention, and learn new information.

While you sleep, cerebrospinal fluid flows through your brain in rhythmic, pulsing waves, researchers report. The research shows that when you’re asleep, your neurons go quiet and, a few seconds later ...

Waves of cerebrospinal fluid which normally wash over brains during sleep can be made to pulse in the brains of people who are wide awake, a new study finds. The clear fluid may flush out harmful ...

It was a shot in the dark — or at best, a dimly lit room: injecting a mouse with a little bit of spinal cord fluid from someone with the most common form of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS. Then ...

The human central nervous system is bathed in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), which is produced by the choroid plexus, circulates through ventricular and subarachnoid spaces, and is reabsorbed via ...

The memory of aging mice improved when they received a substance found in the spinal fluid of young animals and young people. The finding suggests a new approach to treating Alzheimer's disease. Next ...