NEUROLOGY/NEUROSURGERY/NEUROSCIENCE GRAND ROUNDS
Topic: “The Glymphatic System and CNS diseases of disrupted waste management”
Presented by: Dr. Dianne Langford
Assistant Dean for Research
Professor, Department of Neuroscience
Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University
The learning objectives of this presentation are:
- To consider the classic versus the glymphatic systems for solute transport through/out of the brain parenchyma
- To understand proposed pathway and mechanisms of action of the glymphatic system
- To gain knowledge regarding how alterations in the glymphatic system may contribute to accumulation of aberrant proteins, etc., in brain