(Anna Cinaroglu/Moment/Getty Images) Yawning has an unusual and unexpected effect on the flow of fluid protecting the brain, ...

A major international study has uncovered a new biological clue that could help predict dementia long before memory problems arise. Researchers from the University of Cambridge and Zhejiang University ...

While deep breathing moves CSF toward the brain, yawning sometimes pushes it away. Both actions increase blood flow out of ...

Researchers used MRI to show yawning drives cerebrospinal fluid and venous blood out of the skull. This unique flow pattern ...

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 ...

Chiari malformation, an anomaly of the posterior cranial fossa, also known as Arnold–Chiari malformation, was described in autopsies by Hans Chiari, an Austrian pathologist, in 1891. He defined four ...

While yawning and taking deep breaths are similar actions, they have distinct effects on the cerebrospinal fluid in the brain ...