By influencing calcium homeostasis, local protein synthesis and the endoplasmic reticulum, a small protein called Rab10 emerges as a crucial cytoplasmic regulator of neuropeptide secretion.

Discover how the brain's most abundant neurotransmitter, glutamate, is revolutionizing psychiatry and offering new hope for ...

Stimulant medications activate underperforming neural circuits in the prefrontal cortex” - Dr. Stanford OwenGULFPORT, MS, UN ...

A Nigerian researcher, Isreal Onifade, has identified plant compounds that could help in the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease.

Howard Hughes Medical Institute-led research has produced a complete connectome of the Drosophila visual system, enabling systematic investigations into how visual information is processed and relayed ...

Jennifer Morgan, senior scientist at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, studies how the synapse malfunctions in devastating diseases such as Parkinson’s and Lewy body dementia. Now, her lab ...

A fluorescent probe designed to incorporate a fluorophore into the structure of a neurotransmitter finds activity-dependent heterogeneity in dopamine release at individual synapses ...

Synaptic transmission is the biological process by which a neuron communicates with a target cell across a synapse. Chemical synaptic transmission involves the release of a neurotransmitter from ...

Pain is a complex physiological and psychological phenomenon that is subjective in nature. Pain is still one of the most ...

Although the mechanism of problem-solving in sleep is uncertain, theories such as memory reactivation and reorganization ...

Long-term potentiation increases the ability of the relevant synapses to communicate ... coeruleus and the ventral tegmental area release neurotransmitters into the hippocampus, where learning ...