Dogma Surrounding Brain Drainage System Overturned

Researchers in Switzerland suggest that helping the brain to flush out toxic proteins could represent a new approach to preventing or treating age-related neurological disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease. Studies in mice by the team based at ETH Zurich and the University of Zurich have shown for the first time that the lymphatic system plays a key role in draining the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) that bathes the brain, but that this function slows with age.“Our findings implicate that