Andrew Huberman· PhD
But the point is that in 2012, a neuroscientist by the name of Maiken Nedergaard, who studies glia, a form of support cell that also plays an active role in brain function and plasticity, et cetera, she discovered that the brain has a system for clearing out waste that, by all accounts, looks a lot like the lymphatic clearance system in the rest of the body, and that it involves these cells we call glia.