{"id":214939,"date":"2025-05-28T13:04:54","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T18:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/scientists-test-real-time-view-of-brains-waste-removal-with-new-monitoring-device"},"modified":"2025-05-28T13:04:54","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T18:04:54","slug":"scientists-test-real-time-view-of-brains-waste-removal-with-new-monitoring-device","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/scientists-test-real-time-view-of-brains-waste-removal-with-new-monitoring-device","title":{"rendered":"Scientists test real-time view of brain\u2019s waste removal with new monitoring device"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-test-real-time-view-of-brains-waste-removal-with-new-monitoring-device2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new device that monitors the waste-removal system of the brain may help to prevent Alzheimer\u2019s and other neurological diseases, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41551-025-01394-9\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a> published today in Nature Biomedical Engineering.<\/p>\n<p>In the study, participants were asleep when they wore the device: a head cap embedded with electrodes that measures shifts in fluid within <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/brain+tissue\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">brain tissue<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/neural+activity\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">neural activity<\/a> from sleep to wakefulness and changes in the brain\u2019s blood vessels.<\/p>\n<p>By measuring these three features, the researchers found they could monitor the brain\u2019s glymphatic system, which acts as a waste-removal and nutrient-delivery system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new device that monitors the waste-removal system of the brain may help to prevent Alzheimer\u2019s and other neurological diseases, according to a study published today in Nature Biomedical Engineering. In the study, participants were asleep when they wore the device: a head cap embedded with electrodes that measures shifts in fluid within brain tissue, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,38,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-engineering","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}