The brain is an almost inconceivably complex system of billions of neurons interlinked via trillions of connections that work to coordinate everything you do, think, and feel (Zimmer, 2011). This ...

Though Aβ tends to hog the research spotlight, scientists have steadily built a case for the importance of another APP fragment—secreted APP. Now, a paper in the January 11 Science explains how it ...

Depression is a complex condition correlated with multiple differences in brain function and mechanisms. A new paper spanning known data about the neurotransmitter GABA and its principal receptors ...

The amino acid GABA (γ-aminobutyric acid) was first identified in the mammalian brain over 50 years ago, and during the 1950s and 1960s, strong evidence accumulated that it acts as an inhibitory ...

It’s a well-known messenger in the brain: a neurotransmitter dubbed GABA that mellows us out. Drug developers have been tinkering with it for decades, and they’ve scored some big hits, notably Xanax ...

For the first time, scientists have found a chemical in the brain that may be linked to autism. The discovery comes out of Harvard University, where a team of researchers had subjects complete a ...

Postpartum depression (PPD) affects 10% to 20% of parents who give birth all around the world. It can cause severe mood ...

The next advance in treating major depression may relate to a group of brain chemicals that are involved in virtually all our brain activity, according to a new study. This study shows that compared ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Last week brought some rare good news in the autism research world: For the first ...