These layers are the dura mater, arachnoid mater, and pia mater. Together, your meninges stabilize your brain, protect sensitive areas, and give support to nerves, blood vessels, lymphatics ...

Despite its importance, problems related to CSF often go unnoticed until something goes wrong.

Most scientists accept that it involves activation and sensitization of the trigeminovascular system, which includes the sensory peripheral projections to the pain-producing dura mater ...

They call the soft, stretchable device "e-dura," after the dura mater, which is one of the layers of protective membranes that surround the brain and spinal cord. The researchers implanted the ...

“The thickest layer is called the ‘dura mater,’ and that means ‘tough mother,’” Fayson said. “My friend looked at me and said, ‘Shannon, you’re a dura mater.’ I’m like, I am a ‘dura mater.’ That name ...

The nerves of the brain and the spinal cord are protected by three surrounding membranes: the dura mater, arachnoid mater, and pia mater. Arachnoiditis is a pain disorder that develops when the ...

In the February 7 Nature, researchers led by Jonathan Kipnis, at Washington University in St. Louis, report that CSF exits along the outside of veins that connect the parenchyma to the dura mater ...