Dopamine doesn’t flood the brain as once believed – it fires in exact, ultra-fast bursts that target specific neurons. The ...

New research has overturned decades of belief about how dopamine communicates in the brain, showing it acts with pinpoint precision rather than broad diffusion.

Researchers have created over 400 distinct types of human nerve cells in vitro, vastly expanding the diversity available for ...

Neuroinflammation is rewiring our take on mental Illness, emerging science links brain inflammation to depression, anxiety, ...

In fact, flavonoids have been shown to promote better memory retention and recall, protecting neurons from oxidative stress ... the brain releases four chemicals — serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and ...

Dopamine is a neurotransmitter with which neurons communicate to perform all kinds of tasks. It is responsible, for example, for motivation or appetite, or that we associate a more intense emotion to ...

There is too much of a good thing. You may be dealing with too much dopamine, making it hard to enjoy simple things. A fast ...

Stanford researchers discovered that dialing down an overactive enzyme, LRRK2, can regrow lost cellular “antennae” in key ...

Putting the brakes on an enzyme might rescue neurons that are dying in Parkinson's disease, stabilizing the progression of ...

Putting the brakes on an enzyme might rescue neurons that are dying due to a type of Parkinson's disease that's caused by a ...

Too much LRRK2 enzyme activity changes the structure of brain cells in a way that disrupts crucial communication between neurons that make the neurotransmitter dopamine and cells in the striatum, a ...