Normal results are reported when no immunoglobulin proteins, called oligoclonal bands, are found in your cerebrospinal fluid. It is abnormal when there are more than two oligoclonal bands ...

However, the Cedars-Sinai team discovered that in some cases, the real cause of these symptoms might not be damage to the ...

To the Editor: The paper, "Symptomatic Occult Hydrocephalus with 'Normal' Cerebrospinal-Fluid Pressure: A treatable syndrome," by Adams and his co-workers, which appeared in the July 15 ...

Dear Dr. Roach: My son has been diagnosed with a cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leak. I had never heard of this. He has been told that his brain pressure is lower than normal. This caused him to have ...

The ventricles – spaces in the brain where CSF is made -- produce too much fluid. Something blocks the normal flow of fluid and causes it to build up. The bloodstream can’t absorb all the fluid.

Here we will discuss the procedure for obtaining a cerebellomedullary CSF sample. Normal CSF (in a disease-free state) is a clear, colorless pure transudate with very low protein concentration and ...