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A comment on How the Brain Dumps Its Trash (2016) [video].

Re:How the Brain Dumps Its Trash (2016) [video] by tilt_error on Sunday March 05, 2017 @04:01AM (#13795157)
She repeatedly says "the brain does not have a lymphatic system", but wasn't that discovered to be incorrect prior to this video recording?

What am I missing?

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Re:How the Brain Dumps Its Trash (2016) [video] by majkinetor on Sunday March 05, 2017 @04:51AM (#13795284)
As a reference: http://neurosciencenews.com/lymphatic-system-brain-neurobiol...
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Re:How the Brain Dumps Its Trash (2016) [video] by godmodus on Sunday March 05, 2017 @04:53AM (#13795293)
I too thought synapses clean themselves during deep sleep, just not that we'll understood. And as far the lymph system + brain article(0) links =>(0) 2015 https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/lymphat...
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