Reward-related events activate dopamine and other neurons in many brain areas. A report in Nature, however, now suggests that neurons in the lateral habenula signal to dopamine neurons when no ...

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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, ...

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 ...

Studies demonstrate that L-Theanine can improve attention and reduce mental fatigue without causing sedation. When combined ...

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 ...