Researchers have created a protein that can detect the faint chemical signals neurons receive from other brain cells. By ...

WASHINGTON – A new finding from researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center shows that the learning process of associating cues with rewards can be altered by increased or decreased activity ...

The brain’s chatter has always been partly out of reach, with electrical spikes easy to record but the chemical whispers ...

Every movement you make and every memory you form depends on precise communication between neurons. When that communication is disrupted, the brain must rapidly rebalance its internal signaling to ...

A new study has identified a specific neural pathway that connects the brain’s processing of internal states to the formation ...

Neurons (blue) rooted in the substantia nigra provide dopamine (dark green dots) to striatal neurons (red). Stressed dopamine-secreting neurons (blue) emit chemical distress signals (upward arrows).

Scientists at the Baylor College of Medicine, the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children’s Hospital, and the Oregon Health & Science University have identified and mapped ...

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