Popescu’s work focuses on how subtle changes in these key receptors cause them to produce altered electrical signals, which in turn, affect how well the brain functions. The work describes for the ...

A receptor that cannabis latches onto in the brain could be a promising target for future mental health treatments.

They found that an elusive brain receptor may play an important role in the death of neurons from neurological diseases. The UB researchers study a family of brain receptors that are critical to ...

Brain Function: Supersensitive Receptor Engineered, Gain Better Understanding Of Dopamine System Date: October 17, 2008 Source: California Institute of Technology ...

Activating receptors in the brain for the body's hunger hormone increases food-related behaviors, such as gathering, storing and consuming food, a finding that has implications for the treatment ...

Researchers at Yokohama City University and colleagues have developed a new compound that could help doctors detect epileptic foci in the living human brain as well as further the understanding of ...

Researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina have used viruses to infect neurons with genes that allow them to switch on brain receptors involved in suppressing addiction relapse.

A team of Johns Hopkins researchers developed a new radiotracer -- a radioactive substance that can be traced in the body -- to visualize and quantify the brain's cannabinoid receptors by positron ...

Scientists have identified a brain receptor that cocaine binds to, which could open new treatment options for addiction to the drug. Depositphotos. View 1 Image 1 / 1.

About 1,389 babies died of SIDS in 2020, the latest year reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.. Over the past three decades, SIDS rates have declined in the U.S. – dropping ...

Scientists believe blocking a key receptor in brain cells may play a major role in diffusing the biological consequences of Alzheimer’s disease, according to a new study. The research, published ...