They’ll Have to Rewrite the Textbooks

theawakenedstate:

Very interesting…It is these type of articles that show the brain’s understanding is still only at the beginning of discovery. Another example that not everything is in the textbooks we hold so dear to our facts.

“I just said one sentence: ‘They’ll have to rewrite the textbooks.’ There has never been a lymphatic system for the central nervous system, and it was very clear from that first singular observation — and they’ve done many studies since then to bolster the finding — that it will fundamentally change the way people look at the central nervous system’s relationship with the immune system,” Lee said.

I have no words to describe just how ground-breaking this finding is. We’ve assumed for a long time that there was some way that the brain and the immune system were linked, but now we’ve actually found a physical pathway between the two.

They’ll Have to Rewrite the Textbooks