A major international study has uncovered a new biological clue that could help predict dementia long before memory problems ...

Researchers have discovered that problems with the brain’s waste-clearing system—the glymphatic system—may significantly ...

Functional metabolic tomographic optical breast imaging (TOBI) to monitor response to neoadjuvant therapy in breast cancer. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2011 ASCO Annual Meeting I. This ...

Problems with the brain's waste clearance system could underlie many cases of dementia and help explain why poor sleep patterns and cardiovascular risk factors such as high blood pressure increase the ...

In a recent study published in the journal Nature Medicine, a group of researchers assessed if a precise blood test matches or surpasses traditional cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) tests in detecting ...

CIDP causes muscle weakness and numbness, among other symptoms. Diagnosing CIDP involves peripheral nervous system testing, cerebrospinal fluid analysis, and imaging. CIDP is an immune-mediated ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In this retrospective study of six patients (five infants and one child) with herpes simplex virus (HSV) encephalitis, we report the results ...

How Is a CSF Glucose Test Done? The most common way to check the glucose in your cerebrospinal fluid is by performing a lumbar puncture, also called a spinal tap. In some cases, your doctor can also ...