A team of researchers at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) developed a computational method that improves the tracking of neurogenesis as neurons ...

When eating sugar, the body's own opiate known as ß-endorphin was activated. "This acts on other nerve cells with opiate ...

This film photographer's concept of 'burner photos' is genius! Here's why bad photos will help you to grow as a ...

Striatal dopamine (DA) release regulates reward-related learning and behavioural activation and is believed to consist of a short-lived phasic and continuous tonic component. Here, we build a ...

Researchers at Brown University and Cincinnati Children’s found that suppressing opsin 3 in the brain of mice makes them eat ...

Understanding why we always have room for dessert could lead to new treatments for obesity, researchers have revealed.

The discovery opens up opportunities to study the therapeutic properties of ibogaine and related compounds. Ibogaine, a ...

Oxytocin receptor (Oxtr) signaling influences complex social behaviors in diverse species, including social monogamy in prairie voles. How Oxtr regulates specific components of social attachment ...

In a new study, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Professor Hiro Furukawa and postdoc Hyunook Kang prove the existence of a mysterious brain receptor known as GluN1-2B-2D. They also show several ways the ...

One of the most important cognitive foundations of human language is our ability to develop associations between the ...

We all have that one food that is impossible to resist, and more often than not, it's usually an unhealthy obsession that isn ...

I’m blind in the sense that I can’t see anything of any shape, form or substance. I can still however detect light…..and boy ...