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 ...

Hydrocephalus is a condition that occurs when fluid builds up in the skull and causes brain swelling. The name means “water on the brain.” Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) usually moves within the brain’s ...

Enlarged cerebral ventricles are found in 80% of individuals with schizophrenia, yet the mechanisms that lead to ventricular enlargement are mostly unknown. Scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research ...

Dr. Mohana Rao Patibandla’s 51-case series highlights safer, minimally invasive parafascicular techniques for deep brain ...

Enlarged ventricles in the brains of people with multiple sclerosis were previously considered a sign of tissue loss. But a team at the MDC and ECRC demonstrated that this expansion often recedes. A ...

Ventricular septal defect is a hole in the wall between the right and left ventricles of the heart. This abnormality usually develops before birth and is found most often in infants. The ventricles ...

Bioengineers have developed the first biohybrid model of human ventricles with helically aligned beating cardiac cells, and have shown that muscle alignment does, in fact, dramatically increases how ...

A 35 year-old man presented with headaches and gait imbalance. He had been hospitalized for six weeks as a child for meningitis. Non-Communicating Hydrocephalus: Flair axial MRI images. Note the ...