The brain chemicals behind your mood, sleep, and body functions Ever wonder what's going on in your brain when a certain mood strikes? You can thank your neurotransmitters. Neurotransmitters are tiny ...

Neurotransmitters are chemical messengers that help nerve cells (neurons) communicate with one another. These chemical messengers affect the brain by either exciting (stimulating), inhibiting ...

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 ...

Jinwoo Park, PhD, associate professor of biotechnical and clinical laboratory sciences, recently received a $3.7 million, five-year grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to study how ...

New studies show that astrocytes, also known as support cells or “silent cells,” have a larger impact on brain function than previously assumed. Previously, astrocytes were thought to provide a suppor ...

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 ...

General anaesthesia induces unconsciousness for pain-free surgeries, altering brain communication to prevent awareness and memory formation.

A study showed that changes in the functioning of opioid neurotransmitters in the brain may underlie anorexia. A study conducted at Turku PET Centre in Finland showed that changes in the functioning ...

Researchers have identified a neurochemical signature that sets Parkinson's disease apart from essential tremor—two of the ...