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The Skeptics Guide #935 - Jun 10 2023

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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The Effect of Microgravity on the Fluid Component of the Brain

This is looking at the effect of microgravity on the fluid compartment that is our brain. The gray matter tends to move up towards the top of the brain, right? And the ventricular spaces or the ventricles are the fluid filled spaces in the brain. So there's there's water like fluids, cerebral spinal fluid CSF inside the brain and around the brain. It also goes down and fills your spinal cord,. Your entire brain and your spinal cord are all floating in liquid.

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