Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have devised a biomarker test that can spot small amounts of clumping tau protein ...

Medically reviewed by Angela Ryan Lee, MD If you are having an unexplained low-pressure headache, it's possible that you may ...

Your brain and spinal cord are suspended in about 125 mL of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) that not only ... to study because you can't take a good look at someone's brain until after they've died.

Researchers at Cedars-Sinai have found that some people diagnosed with a serious type of dementia may actually have a ...

The test could help identify one key Alzheimer's biomarker, tau protein, before it shows up in brain. Here's what experts say ...

Just over a month after she died, Leslie Charleson ‘s cause of death has been revealed as “sequelae of blunt head trauma,” ...

The purpose of this test is to determine whether or not there are immunoglobulin proteins called oligoclonal bands dwelling in your cerebrospinal fluid. This helps your physician identify the ...

Charleson, who starred as Monica Quartermaine on 'General Hospital' and was the longest-tenured cast member on the soap opera ...

Earlier studies done mostly on mice discovered that the brain had a system that flushed its tissues with cerebrospinal fluid, which carried away waste products in a process called glymphatic clearance ...

Analysis of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) can be a valuable diagnostic tool. This column describes cerebellomedullary CSF collection in the dog. Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is present throughout the ...

If you are having an unexplained low-pressure headache, it's possible that you may have a rare condition called a cerebrospinal fluid (CSF ... in colder weather can look very similar to CSF ...