Glymphatic System

“What in the world is the glymphatic system?”

One of the most amazing and interesting findings of recent brain research findings, that's what. In 2013, a Danish Neuroscientist, Maiken Nedergaard, PhD, and her colleagues at the University of Rochester Medical Center, discovered a system that drains waste products from the brain. Cerebrospinal fluid, a clear liquid surrounding the brain and spinal cord, moves through the brain along a series of channels that surround blood vessels. The system is managed by the brain’s glial cells. Therefore, Dr. Nedergaard named it the glymphatic system because of the glial cells. (This was two years before Dr. Jonathan Kipnis and associates discovered that the brain had an immune system, with vessels running through the three meningeal coverings of the brain.)