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Yawning Does Something Unexpected in Your Brain, MRI Scans Reveal

(Anna Cinaroglu/Moment/Getty Images) Yawning has an unusual and unexpected effect on the flow of fluid protecting the brain, ...
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CSF Hugs Arteries to Squeeze into the Brain

The space between the arachnoid and pia meningeal layers encasing the brain is a landscape of connective tissue, blood vessels, and cerebrospinal fluid. Scientists debate how that fluid moves within ...
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Yawning May Help Clear Brain Waste

Researchers used MRI to show yawning drives cerebrospinal fluid and venous blood out of the skull. This unique flow pattern ...
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MIT study reveals how sleep keeps your brain clean and sharp

Pulsatile CSF flow dynamics increase during epochs with slower reaction times and attentional failures. (CREDIT: Nature) By 10 a.m., having had no sleep, subjects were lying in MRI scanners engaging ...
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Cerebrospinal fluid motion in the brain captured in remarkable detail

Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is a clear and watery liquid that flows in and around the brain and spinal cord. Its functions include protecting parts of the nervous system, delivering nutrients and ...
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Zoning Out From Poor Sleep? A New Study Says That Can Be a Good Thing

Typically, CSF flow during sleep helps get rid of built-up waste from the day. Scientists wanted to know how it might be affected by sleep deprivation, so they recruited 26 volunteers to perform tasks ...