Brain Awareness Week: Day Three

Brain Awareness Week: Day Three

  Chiari 1 Malformation and Spinal CSF Leak Sometimes, intracranial hypotension (low volume of cerebrospinal fluid within the skull) due to spinal cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leak can be mistakenly attributed to Chiari 1 malformation.   What is Chiari 1 malformation?...
Brain Awareness Week: Day Two

Brain Awareness Week: Day Two

  Head pain due to spinal CSF leak For many people experiencing spinal cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leak, the most prominent symptom is head pain that worsens when upright and improves when lying down. But some patients never experience this kind of orthostatic...
Brain Awareness Week: Day One

Brain Awareness Week: Day One

  Brain Awareness Week is a global campaign to foster public enthusiasm and support for brain science. For the first day of brain awareness week, we’re sharing some basic facts about brain anatomy and some of the terms you may have come across in your experience with...