Scientists in the UK, Australia and China have identified a brain molecule called NEAT1 that appears to ... “This supports the idea that this pathway is important,” explains Professor Minyan Wang of ...

But it hasn’t been known where in the brain the signals driving this activity come from. Nor has it been clear how this pathway changes during motor learning. A research team led by Drs. Marcus Benna ...

Amid continued conversations about legalizing cannabis in Pennsylvania comes new research suggesting a potential brain pathway involved in cannabis use disorder and psychosis. It's one of the ...

Scientists have long struggled to define brain fog—let alone pinpoint a cause for it. But research is starting to reveal multiple potential causes from inflammation to a leaky blood-brain barrier.

In a mouse study, they describe a brain pathway that starts with neurons (labeled in green, above) that sense inflammation signals, and the researchers were able to treat the loss of motivation by ...

The MC4R pathway regulates hunger and energy expenditure. Cancer patients can develop obesity after surgery or radiation to treat brain tumors. These treatments can damage the hypothalamus ...

Researchers have studied the biological processes that drive depression in adults and have shown a potential role for the kynurenine pathway ... take two routes in the brain: one that produces ...

as the same brain pathway exists in us. “There is therefore a chance that our findings could have implications for the treatment of anxiety disorders and PTSD, where fear responses become ...

The human brain may contain up to a spoon’s worth of tiny plastic shards—not a spoonful, but the same weight (about seven grams) as a plastic spoon, according to new findings published Monday ...