Jennifer Munson, a cancer researcher at Virginia Tech's Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, has been awarded two new National Institutes of Health grants to advance greater understanding and ...

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New research has uncovered how cerebrospinal fluid dynamics in the brain play an important role in driving the spread of medulloblastoma, the most common malignant brain tumour in children. Published ...

New neuroimaging research shows that when sleep-deprived people lose focus, the brain briefly shifts toward sleep-like physiology, offering fresh insight into why cognitive performance declines ...

Although yawning seems like a small, everyday action, recent studies have found that it causes an unexpected reaction in the fluid protecting the brain. A research team in Australia reports that a ...

"Your brain's fluid system is trying to restore function by pushing the brain to iterate between high-attention and high-flow states." A cascade of bodily changes accompanies attention lapses in sleep ...