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 ...

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 ...

Differences in the physical shape and wiring of the brain can directly contribute to the development of attention and social disorders. A recent genetics study mapped how the size of specific brain ...

A new Yale study reveals that major organ systems in the body aren't just passive structures operating on directions from ...

SAN DIEGO — Like fingerprints, human brains are unique. Scientists are working to map the variability of individual brains and to inform personalized therapeutics for treatment-resistant disease.

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Endurance exercise such as long-distance running benefits the brain, with studies showing that it can improve cognition and reduce the risk of neurodegenerative disease. 2 It also places significant ...

(Alain Jocard/AFP/Getty Images) Every year, more than 2 million people in the United States are diagnosed with ...