大脑清洁系统：如何提升效率？

Time for a tidy-up We have only just started to understand how our brains clean themselves, but Helen Thomson finds promising evidence for how to boost this process I T IS mid-January, so many of us will be in the middle of a New Year detox: cutting back on screentime, perhaps, or abstaining from alcohol. I have been wondering whether you could apply the same logic to the brain: is there anything I can do now the festive fun is over to help clear away my cognitive cobwebs? In fact, the brain performs its own kind of detox every day – clearing out the waste products generated by metabolism that would otherwise build up and cause damage. …