Understanding how human neurons cope with the energy demands of a large, active brain could open up new avenues for treating ...

In a recent study published in the journal Nature, researchers presented the molecular structure of dopamine transporter (DAT) complexed with cocaine. Cocaine is highly addictive, and its misuse ...

The structure of a neurotransmitter such as dopamine determines which part of the cells it can fit into and what effect it will have on our organism, from generating sexual desire to pressing the ...

Naturally rewarding stimuli (i.e. food, sex, etc) increase the activity of dopamine cells in the mesocorticolimbic dopamine system causing increased dopamine release in brain areas such as the nucleus ...

Researchers from the Champalimaud Foundation shed light on the puzzling relationship between dopamine and rest tremor in Parkinson's disease, finding that preserved dopamine in certain brain ...

the study raises many fundamental questions about the formation mechanism and structure of the dopamine polymer. In the formation mechanism of eumelanin, a type of melanin found throughout nature ...

By controlling the amount of dopamine in the brain via clusters of ... Graybiel has spent much of her career studying the striatum, a structure located deep within the brain that is involved ...