How the Brain Knows to Take out the ‘Trash’

How the Brain Knows to Take out the ‘Trash’
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New research reveals more about how the brain’s own housekeeping service, a sophisticated mechanism that cleans up debris and trash left over from cellular activity, actually works.

Scientists have had a hard time figuring out exactly how the brain knows when to initiate this cellular “trash pickup.”