Dopamine—a neurotransmitter responsible for influencing motivation, pleasure, mood and learning in the brain—has experienced ...

A University of Calgary-led international research team has identified a genetic factor that may explain why people respond so differently to opioid pain medications, and why some individuals face ...

New research shows how some brain cells fight tau buildup in Alzheimer’s, pointing to internal systems that help neurons survive longer.

The first node sits in the peripheral nervous system. Sensory neurons in the vagus nerve detect damage in the heart and send signals upward. The researchers focused on a subset of vagal sensory ...

Orphan Drug Designation applies to approximately 50,000 Patients who predominantly suffer from severe chronic pain due ...

The FDA endorsed a ≥2-point reduction on a visual analogue scale for pain as a clinically meaningful endpoint for urcosimod in NCP. NCP is a chronic ocular pain syndrome with no FDA-approved therapies ...

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) remains one of the most pressing neurodegenerative disorders worldwide, characterized by progressive memory loss, synaptic ...

Plastic and thus modifiable neurons lose their function at old age, new research in fruit flies reveals.

An innovative and scalable proximity labelling method profiled proteins present in the Caenorhabditis elegans brain during learning, identifying known regulators as well as novel biological pathways.

Over the past 12 months, hundreds of peer-reviewed cannabis-related studies have been released, covering everything from pain ...

New research suggests that long-term exposure to air pollution may not only increase the risk of developing motor neurone disease (MND), but also worsen outcomes for patients after diagnosis, ...

Researchers at Tulane University, with a team of colleagues from eight other universities, have discovered a new nerve cell signaling mechanism that could transform our understanding of pain and lead ...