Daytime “wash cycles” help clear waste from the brain but cause momentary drops in attention after sleepless nights.

Gus is raising money to fund a college course which will allow him to get a job and 'become independent again' ...

How does the brain take out its trash? That is the job of the brain's lymphatic drainage system, and efforts to understand ...

During sleep, your brain cleans itself by flushing through cerebrospinal fluid to prevent damage to brain cells. If you're ...

Research shows impaired brain waste clearance and cardiovascular risks may increase dementia risk, highlighting new paths for ...

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

Intervening in the pathways that disrupt the brain’s waste clearance system could help prevent or slow Alzheimer’s disease ...

More training is needed for hospital staff after a patient died from "a catastrophic and unsurvivable brain injury" following ...

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

Problems with the brain's waste clearance system could underlie many cases of dementia and help explain why poor sleep ...

There are currently estimated to be 982,000 people with dementia in the UK, but more than a third of people with the ...