Analysis of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) can be a valuable diagnostic tool. This column describes cerebellomedullary CSF collection in the dog.

Deep UV Raman spectroscopy reveals subtle biochemical changes in blood serum, enabling early detection of dementia biomarkers ...

Key points A 71-year-old arable and livestock farmer from Southwestern Ontario was transferred from a peripheral hospital to our tertiary care centre owing to an 18-month history of cognitive decline ...

A CSF glucose test checks the amount of sugar (glucose) in your cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), a clear liquid that surrounds the spinal cord and brain.

Despite these observations, the study concluded that there was no direct correlation between the conus level and the risk of ...

Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) diagnosis involves a neurological exam, nerve conduction studies, electromyography, cerebrospinal fluid analysis, nerve biopsy, and, in ...

Proteogenomic analysis of human cerebrospinal fluid identifies neurologically relevant regulation and implicates causal proteins for Alzheimer’s disease.

Meta-analysis showed that the level of sAPPβ in the cerebrospinal fluid of people with normal pressure hydrocephalus is about half that of people with Alzheimer's disease (effect size = 0.518, p ...

This case study redefines picking someone’s brain. A woman’s coronavirus test went horribly south after she inexplicably began leaking cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) from her nose, according to a ...

Learn the causes, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of CSF (cerebrospinal fluid) leaks, caused by a tear in the dura mater near the brain or spine.

Meta-analysis did not show a difference in the levels of neurofilament light chain in the cerebrospinal fluid of people with Parkinson's disease dementia and people with Alzheimer's disease. However, ...