A healthy brain maintains a harmony of neurons that excite or inhibit other neurons, but the lines between different types of ...

Acetaminophen works via the brain’s endocannabinoid system to both reduce pain and induce changes that are beneficial for ...

A collaborative effort between Mount Sinai and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center has shed valuable light on how monoamine neurotransmitters such as serotonin, dopamine, and now histamine help ...

New proteomics research is enabling scientists to decipher how neurotransmitter receptors behave and change as an organism develops. The new work could help scientists better understand the formation ...

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 ...

Salk scientists create methods to study messenger proteins in the brain called neuropeptides, finding they control the brain’s fear response in mice—a finding that may help develop more effective ...

This video explores how THC mimics the body’s endocannabinoid anandamide, binding primarily to CB₁ receptors and inhibiting the release of key neurotransmitters such as glutamate, GABA, dopamine, ...

People with obesity are ten times more likely to develop diabetes compared with lean people. Researchers trying to understand why have found an answer in the same system that drives the body’s ...

And nicotine really is addictive. The dopamine it stimulates, particularly in a brain area called the nucleus accumbens, ...