Researchers have discovered that acetylcholine, a key brain chemical, can directly cause serotonin release in the striatum, a region tied to movement and learning. The finding reveals a tightly ...

For the roughly one million Americans living with Parkinson’s disease, levodopa is the closest thing to an indispensable drug ...

Using light to control the activity of a specific group of nerve cells, researchers have revealed a possible brain mechanism for responding to surprising or important cues. Changing our behavior based ...

The part of the brain that selectively degenerates in people with Huntington's disease (HD), called the striatum, is almost entirely destroyed in the late stages of the disease. Brain samples from ...

Researchers have reported findings that add to our knowledge of how human behavior may be shaped by the default mode network, a specific network of brain regions with both resting and task-related ...

The embryonic receptor "Smoothened" regulates dopamine and acetylcholine timing to control learning and habit formation in ...

Neuroscientists have established the existence of a biological difference between psychopaths and non-psychopaths. Neuroscientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore), ...

Changing our behavior based on unexpected cues from our environment is an essential part of survival. The ability to drop what you're doing when circumstances demand it could mean the difference ...

Neuroscientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore), University of Pennsylvania, and California State University, have established the existence of a biological difference ...