The chemotherapy agent, 5-azacytidine (5-AZA), is infused directly into the fourth ventricle. The agent has never been injected into a human brain before but has been shown to be promising in ...

Brain researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have detailed temporary reductions in gray matter following prolonged ...

Treatment There is no treatment for the physical brain development abnormalities that are present with Dandy-Walker syndrome, however, a Ventriculoperitoneal shunt can be surgically implanted to allow ...

Lewis’s team took advantage of a new brain-scanning technique, using existing magnetic resonance imaging machines, that highlights any CSF that has newly entered into the fourth ventricle of the ...

There's a New, Secret Fourth Membrane in Your Brain. Here's Why That Matters. Tim Newcomb January 9, 2023 at 4:38 PM There's a Secret Fourth Membrane in Your BrainAndriy Onufriyenko - Getty Images ...

An infection or brain bleed, however, can create a dangerous neuroinflammatory response where the choroid plexus floods the ventricles with cerebral spinal fluid and immune cells from the ...

The scan at Texas Children’s Hospital revealed a pilocytic astrocytoma, a 1.7-inch tumor that was filling the fourth ventricle of her lower brain with cerebrospinal fluid.

Leptomeningeal enhancement was observed surrounding the brain stem and extending through the inferior aspect of the posterior fossa with entrapment of the fourth ventricle (Figure 1C).

There’s a newly discovered fourth membrane in the human brain. The thin brain barrier controls the flow of cerebrospinal fluid in and around the brain to support immune defense.