Methods: Conventional spinal MRI and cine-MRI were performed in the region of CSF flow obstruction preoperatively in seven patients with syringomyelia not associated with Chiari I malformation.

Could this methodology be used to study drainage of brain solutes such as Aβ in humans? MRI using a contrast agent injected into the CSF is already approved for clinical use in people with a suspected ...

"The CSF is easy to see on standard MRIs and points to a potential biomarker of autism before symptoms appear years later," said Piven, co-senior author of the study, the Thomas E. Castelloe ...

“Our new exciting method enables us to glance at the very subtle motion of brain tissue induced by blood pulsation and CSF flow” explains Itamar Terem, Stanford University research assistant ...

Mystery of bleary-eyed astronauts may be cleared up with spinal fluid study Small study finds fluid that cushions the brain floods eye cavities in microgravity.