# Maiken Nedergaard
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maiken nedergaard is a Danish neuroscientist most well known for discovering the glymphatic system. She is a jointly appointed professor in the Departments of Neuroscience and Neurology at the University of Rochester Medical Center. She holds a part-time appointment in the Department of Neurosurgery within the University of Rochester Center for Translational Neuromedicine, where she is the principal investigator of the Division of Glial Disease and Therapeutics laboratory.
Brain Detoxification—Part 1—The Role of the Blood Brain Barrier and The Glymphatic System
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Hello and welcome to episode #16!
Today I’ll be describing an elemental aspect in maintaining a healthy brain as you age and preventing the cognitive decline that is associated with unhealthy aging and the risk for Alzheimer’s disease as you age—brain detoxification.
Because brain det…
07: Brain Detox Fasting
Fasting Improves Brain & Neurological Detox!
A study published in Science in October 2013 entitled “Sleep Drives Metabolite Clearance from the Adult Brain” found that we need to sleep specifically so that the brain can focus on a built-in detox that happens each night.
Lead study author Dr. Maike…
Curing Dementia - Examining The Role of our Glymphatic System
The glymphatic system works as a waste-carrying drainage system which removes unwanted materials from the brain. It was identified as a system in 2013 by Danish neuroscientist Maiken Nedergaard. He used the term glymphatic because the system works in a similar way to the lymphatic system but it is …
Stop Obsessing Over Sleep—Your Brain Will Thank You
Maiken Nedergaard considers herself a pragmatic woman. She’s got kids, a career, and she knows she feels better after a solid night of shut-eye. She’s also a neuroscientist at the forefront of research showing the biological value of sleep. In studies she coauthored in 2013 and 2019, she documented…
Why Sleep Is Critical for Immune Health
There's no doubt this is a time of uncertainty. COVID-19 has changed the way most of us live, and it's not clear when or if we'll be able to resume the activities we took for granted just a year ago. Rather than waiting for the government to figure it all out, our best defence against infectious di…
Maiken Nedergaard's power of disruption
The award-winning researcher's discoveries have changed the way we think about the brain; that's exactly what her critics dislike.
Interlude XX – The Whispering Cells: Astrocytes and the Secret Mind
In this quietly radical interlude, Dr. Juan Carlos Rey of crowscupboard.com invites you into the hidden orchestra of the brain - the immense realm of glial cells: astrocytes, oligodendrocytes, and microglia. We have long worshipped the bright-firing neurons, but these non-neuronal cells may in fact…
The incredible science of the sleeping brain
Humans have been wondering why we sleep for thousands of years. Is sleep’s purpose rest and relaxation, memory consolidation or maybe cognitive processing? In the last 15 years, scientists have discovered another possible explanation – waste disposal. In 2012 neuroscientist Maiken Nedergaard’s lab …
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