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Yawning may quietly protect your brain, study finds

Although yawning seems like a small, everyday action, recent studies have found that it causes an unexpected reaction in the ...
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Yawning triggers a surprising brain reboot, MRI scans reveal

Yawning has long been dismissed as a sign of boredom or fatigue, a social cue we mostly try to suppress in meetings and on ...
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Yawning Does Something Surprising in Your Brain, MRI Scans Reveal

Yawning has an unusual and unexpected effect on the flow of fluid protecting the brain, a recent study reveals, though it's ...
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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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A Facial Massage May Get the CSF Flowing

Massage might help your brain flow regain its mojo. On June 4 in Nature, researchers led by Gou Young Koh at the Institute for Basic Science in Daejeon, South Korea, mapped the labyrinth of lymphatics ...
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Study finds why poor sleep and high blood pressure may increase dementia risk

The ‘glymphatic system’ — the flow of cerebrospinal fluid during sleep to flush out toxins and waste materials from the brain — plays an essential role in keeping the brain healthy. A new study, using ...
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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 ...