Neurons are cells in the body that are responsible for transmitting electrical signals through the nervous system. Different ...

The nervous system contains hundreds of different types of neurons that have ... such as L-DOPA, promote dopamine function. Although neurons are considered the basic units of the brain and nervous ...

Researchers at MIT have uncovered a powerful way the brain "unlearns" fear: through a dopamine-driven reward signal. By ...

A recent MIT study in mice reveals dopamine's crucial role in fear extinction. Researchers discovered that dopamine activates ...

Scientists had previously identified the functions of two distinct pathways and types of dopamine receptors in the forebrain: ...

The hallmark pathology of Parkinson’s disease is the damage and death of dopamine producing neurons in the brain. Dopamine plays a role in controlling movement, cognition, learning, and mood, ...

As our understanding of the fine-tuning of neuronal gene expression has grown, microRNAs (miRNAs) have emerged as key post-transcriptional regulators. These small, non-coding RNAs prevent the ...

Using a technique called single-cell RNA sequencing, which can parse the gene expression activity of individual cells within a tissue sample, the team identified all ten types of neurons—each of which ...

The new studies took a different approach: They gathered two types of widely available stem cells, turned them into young dopamine neurons, and implanted them into the brain. In one trial, researchers ...