A new international study has unveiled critical insights in understanding post-traumatic epilepsy (PTE), a condition that can ...

In a study published in Cell, a research team led by Zhu Shujia from the Center for Excellence in Brain Science and ...

Specific protein receptors in the brain play a vital role in how neurons slow down or stop firing, making them targets for ...

New research found that individuals with anorexia nervosa have elevated opioid neurotransmitter activity, which may ...

Weill Cornell Medicine investigators have identified in a preclinical model a specific brain circuit whose inhibition appears to reduce anxiety without side effects.

Weill Cornell Medicine researchers have identified a brain circuit linked to anxiety that may provide a new drug target, ...

Although scientists can learn a lot from cell culture and animal models, they cannot truly substitute for all parts of the ...

A network of nerves similar to wires runs all through the human body, from the tips of your fingers and toes, through your ...

Certain proteins found in the human brain have long been known to be critical to controlling how brain cells communicate with each other.

Research led by Jia Zhou in the Hibbs Lab at UC San Diego has mapped the structures of human brain receptors for the neurotransmitter GABA. The team obtained samples from epilepsy patients undergoing ...