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Dr Yvonne Couch - Brain Drain: The Controversy Around Glymphatics
Dr Yvonne Couch narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher.
Yvonne got pulled into an accidental group chat argument with colleagues about whether the brain's glymphatic system actually exists, and it escalated into a full blown journal club debate.
In this blog she walks through the case for it: how the lymphatic system works everywhere else in the body, why the brain's tightly packed vasculature makes a proper lymphatic network hard to picture, and how a 2012 paper from Maiken Nedergaard's group tied two older observations together into the modern glymphatic hypothesis. She then sets…
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