Many people are familiar with histamine, a biological molecule that serves as a key driver of allergic reactions and other ...

Muse Treatment Alcohol & Drug Rehab Los Angeles has published a new educational resource that explains how opioid receptors ...

Receptor patterns define key organizational principles in the brain, scientists have discovered. Receptor patterns define key organisational principles in the brain, scientists have discovered. An ...

A receptor that cannabis latches onto in the brain could be a promising target for future mental health treatments. Experiencing chronic stress is known to leave people vulnerable to depression or ...

Scientists have discovered that a receptor on the surface of brain cells plays a key role in regulating how both animals and people respond to stress. The research suggests that the receptor may ...

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative syndrome characterized by amyloid plaques, neurofibrillary tangles and loss of synapses. Amyloid plaques arise from abnormal proteolytic processing of ...

Scientists have identified a promising target for treatment of a devastating autoimmune disease affecting the brain.

Stress, the body's natural response to different types of challenges and daily problems, is an inherently harmless state ...

Only one drug is approved to treat persons with mild to moderate Alzheimer's symptoms, despite the fact that the brain protein at the core of this disease, the NMDA receptor, is known to play a ...

An international team of Human Brain Project (HBP) researchers has mapped out neurotransmitter receptors across the macaque brain, defining key organizational principles in the brain, and revealing a ...