A better understanding of how humans learn could lead to improved teaching techniques and, along the way, alter the trajectories of countless human lives. Thanks to a National Science Foundation grant for 3.5 million, with the possibility...

Leptin, a hormone critical for normal food intake and metabolism, exerts a strong effect on appetite by acting in the mid-brain region as well as in the hypothalamus, according to a Yale School of Medicine study in Neuron. "Finding that me...

UAB (University of Alabama at Birmingham) researchers are investigating whether a common but usually harmless virus can be used to treat a particularly devastating type of brain tumor called malignant glioma. The virus -- respiratory enter...

Tourette Syndrome (TS) is an often disabling hereditary condition characterized by motor and phonic tics that today affects approximately 200,000 children and adults in the U.S. and Canada. In a meeting jointly sponsored by the National In...

David M. Devilbiss, Michelle E. Page and Barry D. Waterhouse Joseph R. Mazzulli, Amanda J. Mishizen, Benoit I. Giasson, David R. Lynch, Steven A. Thomas, Akira Nakashima, Toshiharu Nagatsu, Akira Ota, and Harry Ischiropoulos This week, Maz...

David M. Devilbiss, Michelle E. Page, and Barry D. Waterhouse The noradrenergic neurons of the locus ceruleus (LC) influence sleep and wakefulness, as well as attention and feeding, through their diffuse projections. Devilbiss et al. sough...

Jung-Yu C. Hsu, Robert McKeon, Staci Goussev, Zena Werb, Jung-Uek Lee, Alpa Trivedi, and Linda J. Noble-Haeusslein Proteolysis is not always a bad thing, according to the results of Hsu et al. In the immediate aftermath of spinal cord inju...

Hideki Iwamoto, Randy D. Blakely, and Louis J. De Felice Choline transporters (CHTs) are concentrated at cholinergic nerve terminals at which these sodium-coupled transport molecules deliver the goods to the cytoplasm for subsequent acetyl...

A Yale School of Medicine study shows for the first time that a high level of testosterone, such as that caused by the use of steroids to increase muscle mass or for replacement therapy, can lead to a catastrophic loss of brain cells. Taki...

Using an animal model, brain researchers in Gttingen have examined the effects of mutations that cause autism in humans. These are mutations in the genes which carry the building instructions for proteins in the neuroligin family. The stud...