Large oscillations of CSF inflow to the brain appeared about every 20 seconds and were tightly coupled to functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) signals of blood flow and electroencephalogram ...

Idiopathic scoliosis (IS) affects 3% of children worldwide, yet the mechanisms underlying this spinal deformity remain unknown. Here we show that ptk7 mutant zebrafish, a faithful developmental model ...

The treatment for INPH is surgical diversion of CSF. This is accomplished by implanting a shunt to drain CSF from either the intracranial ventricular system or the lumbar subarachnoid space to a ...

Researchers studied whether therapy with granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulating factor, an agent that functions as a white blood cell growth factor, would improve walking performance in patients ...

A device that massages the face and neck boosts the brain’s waste disposal system, suggesting it could reduce the severity of conditions like Alzheimer’s disease. Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) bathes our ...

Why do some children have abnormally large heads? This most probably is a result of hydrocephalus. Hydrocephalus is a word derived from Greek – ‘hydro’ meaning water and ‘cephalous’ referring to the ...