Chronic migraine is associated with idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH), and this association seems to be particularly common among overweight women. To evaluate the prevalence of IIH without ...

Patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) with refractory headache warrant further evaluation—particularly if they are children—in order to rule out treatable ailments such as intracranial ...

A large number of studies over the past 20 years have quantified tau protein in the cerebrospinal fluid of people with Alzheimer’s disease, consistently finding elevated levels of tau in AD—such that ...

Your brain and spinal cord are bathed in fluid. A lumbar puncture, also called a spinal tap, is a procedure doctors use to remove and test some of this liquid, called cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). It ...

A 75 year-old woman presented with gait difficulty, urinary incontinence and difficulty with concentration. Following this scan, the patient had a lumbar puncture that revealed an opening pressure of ...