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Summary: A new study has identified a biomarker, DTI-ALPS, which connects glymphatic system dysfunction to vascular dementia.

These synchronized oscillations drive the glymphatic system, a brain-wide network responsible for clearing out protein waste, including amyloid and tau — key contributors to neurodegenerative diseases ...

While we’re asleep at night, our brain is busy doing maintenance. The glymphatic system–the brain’s waste disposal mechanism–flushes away excess cerebrospinal fluid containing harmful ...

These oscillations power the glymphatic system, a brain-wide network that is responsible for removing protein waste, including amyloid and tau that are associated with neurodegenerative diseases.

Nedergaard and other colleagues discovered the glymphatic system—responsible for waste-removal in the brain—in 2012. The glymphatic system moves a clear liquid called cerebrospinal fluid ...