Summary: A new five-year study explores how dopamine may drive changes in brain myelin during social isolation. Researchers ...
Parkinson's disease is characterized by the death of dopamine-producing neurons in a part of the brain responsible for motor ...
CUNY Graduate Center Professor Leora Yetnikoff receives $1 million from the National Science Foundation to explore the links ...
A new study published in Brain Sciences provides evidence that dopamine promotes movement by directly altering the excitability of key neurons in the brain’s motor circuitry. The research identifies a ...
Decision-making, the process through which humans choose between different available options, has been the topic of countless neuroscience, psychology and behavioral science studies. This process does ...
Certain brain cells are responsible for coordinating smooth, controlled movements of the body. But when those cells are constantly overactivated for weeks on end, they degenerate and ultimately die.