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Spacing out spaceflights may benefit astronauts’ brains. While outside Earth’s atmosphere, fluid-filled chambers in the brains of astronauts tend to adapt to microgravity by expanding. But after a ...

Research found the choroid plexus and cerebrospinal fluid play a key role in maintaining a pool of newly born neurons to repair the adult brain after injury. University of Cincinnati researchers have ...

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Astronaut candidate Bobby Satcher during a zero-gravity flight on an aircraft in 2004. The microgravity in space affects the human body and even changes the brain. Smith Collection / Gado via Getty ...

Approximately 400,000 cases of infantile and childhood hydrocephalus occur worldwide annually. 1 For most affected patients, treatment is inadequate because of limited access to care. Left untreated, ...