Tag Archives: glymphatic system

May 15

The glymphatic system and neurodegeneration: a carwash for your brain   

If you’ve been keeping up with hot topics in neuroscience research, you may have recently started hearing buzz about the glymphatic system. This topic has been making waves in the fields of sleep and neurodegeneration research. Although we are learning new things about the brain every day, many of its major functions and critical pathways […]

April 26

Lymph, glymph, sleep, & sickness

  Consider the word “lymph.” What comes to mind? To me, “lymph” sounds like a viscous liquid that might ooze out of the orifices of some terrifying wounded creature. Or perhaps your mind jumps to the term “lymph nodes”, conjuring images of little knobs in your neck bulging with infection, sometimes growing so large that […]