What Neurosurgery Got Wrong | Part 1

We have been taught for over a century that cerebrospinal fluid is made in the ventricles, and flows in a specific manner. But, is it made in the ventricles and does it even flow?

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In all the years I have spent questioning the assumptions and information we take for granted within medicine, I never thought that we could have such a basic principle so wrong and due to such silly faults in our reasoning.

The mistake in our model of the nervous system that I am referring to relates to the nature and physiol…