The brain has its own waste disposal system—known as the glymphatic system—that's thought to be more active when we sleep. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. But ...

A revealing study found that poor sleep patterns age a person's brain faster than those who sleep more than 8 hours per night ...

A good night’s sleep does more than just help you feel rested, it might literally clear your mind, according to the results of newly reported research by scientists at the University of Rochester and ...

Brain health is moving to the center of the healthcare conversation. As Dr. Charles Hennekens wrote in The American Journal ...

One area of growing interest among scientists is the glymphatic system—a network that helps clear waste products from the brain. This system operates mainly during deep sleep and uses cerebrospinal ...

Breakthrough enables continuous, non-invasive monitoring of the brain’s waste clearance system, unlocking new drug targets for Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases Applied Cognition, a ...

The habit that may be quietly raising your risk of dementia and Alzheimer's? Not getting enough sleep. According to the study, participants who reported having "poor sleep quality" demonstrated ...

Two landmark international studies show that brain biomarkers can predict whether people with REM sleep behaviour disorder ...

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 ...

A hormone produced by the brain, orexin, may play a central role in the functioning of the brain’s glymphatic system, which clears waste, according to a new study from the University of Oulu.

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