Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu introduced extreme policies to increase the country's birth rate. This led to the ...

Stanford Medicine scientists are generating a periodic table of sorts for psychiatric disorders, providing a better ...

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Scientists are unraveling the mystery of what triggers Huntington's disease, a devastating and fatal hereditary disorder that ...

Effective treatments for people with serious depression who have not been helped by antidepressant medications have novel ...

In a study, scientists have shown neurotransmitters in the human brain are active during the processing of the emotional content of language, providing new understanding into how people interpret the ...

Agonists of metabotropic glutamate or acetylcholine receptors ... Synchronized LTS activity required electrical synapses, but not fast chemical synapses. Tetanic stimulation of local circuitry ...

Declining blood levels of two molecules that occur naturally in the body track closely with worsening Alzheimer's disease, particularly in women. Levels were found to drop gradually, from women with ...

Declining blood levels of two molecules that occur naturally in the body track closely with worsening Alzheimer's disease, ...

This shuttling action is key in regulating genes that produce the neurotransmitter glutamate, another chemical involved in most brain activities, including nerve cell repair (plasticity). This matters ...

Per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS) earn their “forever chemical” moniker by persisting in water, soil and even the human brain. This unique ability to cross the blood-brain barrier and ...

1 Department of Brain Biochemistry, Maj Institute of Pharmacology ... In the first part, rats were exposed to RS for 3, 7, or 14 days, and the expression of glutamate signaling proteins (p(S845)/t ...