Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by the loss of neuronal dopamine ...

A new Northwestern Medicine study has identified the molecular mechanisms that cause a commonly prescribed antipsychotic drug ...

Researchers at the Wertheim UF Scripps Institute in Jupiter are developing molecules to address the root cause of Parkinson's ...

Learn how dopamine helps encode and extinguish fear in the brains of mice.

This lack of understanding contributes hugely to the growing health burden of Parkinson’s, with over 10 million people living with the disease and incidence doubling every 25 years, according to the ...

When the British surgeon James Parkinson first described “shaking palsy” in 1817, he did so by looking at the way patients’ bodies moved. Two centuries on, most specialists seeking to diagnose ...

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Dangers come but dangers also go and when they do, the brain has an "all-clear" signal that teaches it to extinguish its fear ...

Researchers from MIT found that dopamine signals, traveling from the VTA to the amygdala, help extinguish fear by triggering ...

An edited version of a figure from the research shows the ventral tegmental area, highlighting dopamine-associated neurons in green and one that connects to the posterior amygdala (magnified in inset) ...

A new study reveals that dopamine release along a specific brain circuit helps extinguish fear by activating reward-related neurons in the amygdala.