A review on continuous wave functional near-infrared spectroscopy and imaging instrumentation and methodology

F Scholkmann, S Kleiser, AJ Metz, R Zimmermann… - Neuroimage, 2014 - Elsevier
This year marks the 20th anniversary of functional near-infrared spectroscopy and imaging
(fNIRS/fNIRI). As the vast majority of commercial instruments developed until now are based …

Cerebrospinal fluid mechanics and its coupling to cerebrovascular dynamics

AA Linninger, K Tangen, CY Hsu… - Annual Review of Fluid …, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is not stagnant but displays fascinating oscillatory flow patterns
inside the ventricular system and reversing fluid exchange between the cranial vault and …

Importance of CSF-based Aβ clearance with age in humans increases with declining efficacy of blood-brain barrier/proteolytic pathways

DL Elbert, BW Patterson, BP Lucey… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
The kinetics of amyloid beta turnover within human brain is still poorly understood. We
previously found a dramatic decline in the turnover of Aβ peptides in normal aging. It was not …

Updating the mild encephalitis hypothesis of schizophrenia

K Bechter - Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and …, 2013 - Elsevier
Schizophrenia seems to be a heterogeneous disorder. Emerging evidence indicates that
low level neuroinflammation (LLNI) may not occur infrequently. Many infectious agents with …

Boundary conditions investigation to improve computer simulation of cerebrospinal fluid dynamics in hydrocephalus patients

S Gholampour, N Fatouraee - Communications biology, 2021 - nature.com
Three-D head geometrical models of eight healthy subjects and 11 hydrocephalus patients
were built using their CINE phase-contrast MRI data and used for computer simulations …

CNS wide simulation of flow resistance and drug transport due to spinal microanatomy

KM Tangen, Y Hsu, DC Zhu, AA Linninger - Journal of biomechanics, 2015 - Elsevier
Spinal microstructures are known to substantially affect cerebrospinal fluid patterns, yet their
actual impact on flow resistance has not been quantified. Because the length scale of …

Functional hyperemia drives fluid exchange in the paravascular space

RT Kedarasetti, KL Turner, C Echagarruga… - Fluids and Barriers of …, 2020 - Springer
The brain lacks a conventional lymphatic system to remove metabolic waste. It has been
proposed that directional fluid movement through the arteriolar paravascular space (PVS) …

Flow induced by ependymal cilia dominates near-wall cerebrospinal fluid dynamics in the lateral ventricles

B Siyahhan, V Knobloch… - Journal of the …, 2014 - royalsocietypublishing.org
While there is growing experimental evidence that cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) flow induced by
the beating of ependymal cilia is an important factor for neuronal guidance, the respective …

Comparison of 4D phase-contrast MRI flow measurements to computational fluid dynamics simulations of cerebrospinal fluid motion in the cervical spine

TI Yiallourou, JR Kröger, N Stergiopulos, D Maintz… - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) dynamics in the cervical spinal subarachnoid space (SSS) have
been thought to be important to help diagnose and assess craniospinal disorders such as …

Multiscale modeling and simulation of brain blood flow

P Perdikaris, L Grinberg, GE Karniadakis - Physics of Fluids, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
The aim of this work is to present an overview of recent advances in multi-scale modeling of
brain blood flow. In particular, we present some approaches that enable the in silico study of …