Increasing brain drain to boost memory?

Our recent collaborative research was published today in Nature. We were part of a multidisciplinary team led by Dr. Jonathan Kipnis at the University of Virginia that included Electrical Engineers, Biomedical Engineers, Neuroscientists, and Biologists. You can read about the Munson Lab's contributions (including Kathryn Kingsmore and Chase Cornelison) in this Virginia Tech Press Release.

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The full article can be found via the citation below:

S Da Mesquita, A Louveau, A Vaccari, I Smirnov, RC Cornelison, KM Kingsmore, C Contarino, S Onengut-Gumuscu, E Farber, D Raper, KE Viar, W Baker, N Dabhi, G Oliver, S Rich, JM Munson, CC Overall, ST Acton, J Kipnis, Functional Aspects of meningeal lymphatics in ageing and Alzheimer's disease Nature. (2018). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-018-0368-8.