Your brain ventricles are four fluid-filled chambers that produce cerebrospinal fluid. This fluid helps nourish your brain and protect it from injury. It would be easy to argue that your brain is the ...

Hormone levels fluctuate like the tides, ebbing and flowing according to carefully orchestrated cycles. These hormones not only influence the body, but can cross into the brain and shape the behavior ...

The development of many psychiatric disorders, including depression, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, is known to be in great part influenced by genetics. Past research has identified various genes ...

A study of 2,044 older Japanese adults found that those with lower vitamin C levels in their blood plasma tended to have a ...

A study of 2,044 older Japanese adults found that those with lower vitamin C levels in their blood plasma tended to have a lower volume of gray matter in their brains, as well as lower connectivity ...

Ages 40 to 65 see a period of turmoil in the brain that has previously been overlooked. But identifying problems during this ...

New research found that older adults with higher vitamin C in their blood had more gray brain matter (tissue that supports ...