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 ...

While we've known for some time that obesity affects the brain, scientists have found that, more importantly, it's where you carry it that matters. And it's the deep visceral fat around organs that ...

Watching your baby girl grow is one of the most joyful experiences of parenthood. Between 12 to 24 months, she begins to move ...

At first glance, a BMI chart seems pretty straightforward ... The researchers combined these datasets to find out whether fat storage location could explain differences in brain structure, brain ...

The brain is usually fully developed and mature by age 30. Although the brain will approach its full size by early childhood, the physical structure and function will continue to be refined as nerve ...

If we can fully map the structure of our brains, will we be able to understand how they work? That is the goal of researchers attempting to build a wiring diagram, or connectome, of our neural ...

Scientists have long wanted to get a closer look at the movement of lipids around a cell, but because organelles are so close ...

ELECTRICITY SUPPLY BY 2045. NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY IS PARTNERING WITH UTEP TO EXPLORE RESEARCH ON THE BRAIN AND BEHAVIORAL HEALTH. WEEKS AGO, BOTH SCHOOLS HELD A WORKSHOP TO EXPLORE HOW TO ...

New research from the Generation R study suggests that what mothers eat and what supplements they take during pregnancy could have lasting effects on children’s brain structure and behavior, offering ...