An international research team led jointly by the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG), the University of Göttingen and ...

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 ...

Neuropsychology is a unique branch of psychology that combines the study of brain functions with behavior. The neuropsychologist plays a key role in this field, examining how brain structures and ...

Family finances and opportunities in a child’s neighborhood account for about 16% of the variability in kids’ brain function ...

The human brain is one of the most complex organs in the world, and it consumes a lot of the energy that people take in by eating food (about 20 percent of the daily calorie intake). To make it more ...

Lower vitamin C levels were linked to reduced brain volume and weaker neural connectivity in older adults, suggesting a potential connection between nutrition and brain health.

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