New finding causes scientists to reconsider what actually causes cerebrospinal fluid buildup in the brain

Hydrocephalus, commonly referred to as "water on the brain," is a dangerous and potentially deadly condition that can harm ...
The New England Journal of Medicine

Idiopathic Normal-Pressure Hydrocephalus

The typical signs and symptoms of idiopathic NPH are shown. In a retrospective study involving 418 patients with shunt-responsive idiopathic NPH, 96% of the patients had gait difficulty, 76% had ...
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Researchers awarded $2.85 million NIH grant to study new technique assessing cerebrospinal fluid in babies with hydrocephalus

A five-year, $2.85 million grant to use novel technology to study babies with hydrocephalus has been awarded to a team of UTHealth Houston researchers by the National Institute of Neurological ...
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Manipulating blood flow in the brain with visual stimulation induces complementary fluid flow

Researchers at Boston University, USA report that the flow of cerebrospinal fluid in the brain is linked to waking brain activity. Led by Stephanie Williams, and publishing in the open access journal ...
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Study links sleep loss to brain fluid pulses and attention lapses

Laura Lewis, the study’s senior author and an associate professor at MIT’s Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, framed the implication directly: “This close linkage between disparate events ...