New research spotlights the habenula, a tiny but powerful brain region, as a key player in addiction, motivation, and ...

Our brain requires a constant ... especially by inhibiting the subclass of NMDA receptors. The study does not yet answer exactly how the unusual neurotransmitter releases occur and which cell ...

Drugs that bind to and activate the receptors for the hormones GLP-1 and GIP are effective in the treatment of obesity and ...

False-colour positron emission tomography (PET) scan highlighting limbic areas in a human brain. A receptor for the inhibitory neurotransmitter GABA is visualised here in regions of the brain ...

Synaptic plasticity is the basis of information storage in the brain ... the number and composition of receptors that are available to respond to released neurotransmitters.

A new study shows that when energy is depleted—such as during a stroke—neurons begin releasing glutamate in abnormal, self-amplifying bursts that can damage nerve cells.

Upon energy restriction, an unusual release of the neurotransmitter glutamate can be observed. The overabundance of glutamate ...

Psychiatric disorders are disorders of the brain in the sense that ... include reductions in the amount of neurotransmitters produced and the number of receptors for those chemicals.

In particular, studies have suggested that something is unusual about signaling controlled by the inhibitory neurotransmitter ... had differences in GABAA receptor binding,” says Declan Murphy, a ...

In multicellular organisms, growth factors, hormones, neurotransmitters ... which travels from the mammalian brain to the ovary, where it triggers egg release. Some cells also respond to ...

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