A phase 1 trial treated 15 patients with breast cancer that spread to the spinal fluid using a vaccine made from their own immune cells. One patient is now more than three years from diagnosis.

Treatment for glioma has long relied on MRI imaging to track tumor markers and treatment response. But findings from a team at the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center, led by Carl Koschmann, ...

Up to three quarters of patients receiving cancer chemotherapy suffer from "chemo brain"—a long-term side effect that makes it harder to remember things, maintain attention, and learn new information.

It was a shot in the dark — or at best, a dimly lit room: injecting a mouse with a little bit of spinal cord fluid from someone with the most common form of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS. Then ...

The human central nervous system is bathed in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), which is produced by the choroid plexus, circulates through ventricular and subarachnoid spaces, and is reabsorbed via ...

Alzheimer's disease and other forms of neurodegeneration can be identified using a combination of biomarkers in cerebrospinal fluid of living patients, researchers find. Alzheimer's disease and ...

Lewy body disease is the second most common neurodegenerative disease after Alzheimer's disease. A research group from Lund University has now shown that the disease can be detected before symptoms ...