The choice of 810 nm is also supported by photobiology: this wavelength aligns well with the absorption spectrum of cytochrome c oxidase (the mitochondrial “light receptor”) and has been widely used ...

If you find it hard to focus after a wakeful night, it’s because your brain is busy trying to catch up on crucial housekeeping.

New research shows that a cocktail of drugs already approved to treat high blood pressure quickly reduces brain swelling and improves outcomes in animal models of brain injury. Cerebral edema, the ...

Cerebrospinal fluid washes waste from the brain, eventually draining into the lymph nodes and bloodstream—but exactly how this flow bypasses the brain’s barriers to reach the periphery has remained ...

Brain's nightly cleaning cycle, crucial for clearing waste like beta-amyloid, falters with sleep loss. This disruption ...

With age, the brain’s ability to clear aggregating proteins such as Aβ wanes. In the November 9 Nature, researchers led by Jonathan Kipnis at Washington University in St. Louis suggest a reason why.