Acetylcholine, a key neurotransmitter, plays a vital role in your body by facilitating communication between neurons in both the central and peripheral nervous systems. It is essential for muscle ...

Two people who watch the same movie may remember completely different scenes.One person remembers the words spoken by the ...

Neurons perform numerous complex tasks by communicating with each other via small messenger molecules called neurotransmitters. Accurately detecting them is crucial to understanding the functioning of ...

A team of researchers from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has uncovered new clues about how chemicals released by brain cells regulate our attention span. Findings from ...

Scientists have long-studied the role of dopamine, a chemical in the brain that helps control learning and movement, in order to better understand Parkinson's disease, schizophrenia, and ...

Acetylcholine regulates blood flow, but the source of blood acetylcholine has been unclear. Now, researchers at Karolinska Institutet have discovered that certain T cells in human blood can produce ...

Cocaine, opioids, and other drugs of abuse disrupt the brain's reward system, often shifting users' priorities to obtaining more drug above all else. For people battling addiction, this persistent ...

Two new reports this week show what can happen when neurotransmitters get out of whack, with ramifications for Alzheimer disease and Parkinson disease. First, a paper in the September 7 Neuron ...

Clinically approved drugs induced ChAT expression and acetylcholine production in podocytes in vivo, suggesting the pathway could be pharmacologically targeted.