The brain has its own waste disposal system – known as the glymphatic system – that’s thought to be more active when we sleep.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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

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 ...

We’ve all heard about detoxing our livers and kidneys. Green juices, lemon water, and various cleanses promise to flush toxins from our bodies and reset our digestive systems. But what about the three ...

New research has found that people with narcolepsy type 1 exhibit patterns of slow brain pulsations that resemble those seen in healthy sleep. The findings, published in PNAS, suggest that orexin—a ...