Upon examining postmortem human brains, Ménard says she and her team, including lead author Katarzyna Dudek, found the level of CB1 receptors on astrocytes in these parts of the brain was "lower in ...

"Other studies have measured the total levels of NMDA receptors in the human brain but did not differentiate between those located in synapses and extrasynapses. We adapted a protocol designed for ...

The finding of a new study could advance the development of new drugs that block or open such signaling channels to treat conditions as varied as epilepsy and some intellectual disorders.

Leibniz Institute for Primate Research and the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics have discovered ...

Researchers used advanced cryo-electron microscopy to capture atomic-level images of how glutamate, a key neurotransmitter, ...

Using rational design, knowledge of a specific receptor on the BBB allows ... in multiple primate species and in cultured human neurons, where it exhibited improved gene delivery efficiency throughout ...

Have you ever felt a chill run down your spine while watching someone else in distress? This phenomenon, known as vicarious ...

The AMPA group of brain receptors have mostly been assumed to ... The ability to physically partition the human brain at a spatial resolution comparable to neuroimaging methods enabled the ...

Johns Hopkins researchers used cryo-electron microscopy to study how glutamate opens AMPA receptors, which control brain ...

"The human hand isn't completely ... inspired -- it models the hand's touch receptors to produce nervelike messages so the prosthetics' 'brain,' or its computer, understands if something is ...