In the long debate over how best to preserve our minds as we age, a new heavyweight contender has stepped into the ring. Or ...

Their findings reveal that the locus coeruleus (LC), a small brainstem structure that produces norepinephrine (NA), plays a ...

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is often recognized by its well-known symptoms—memory loss, confusion, and cognitive decline. But ...

Researchers identified how a brain circuit involving dopamine and GLP-1 receptor impact palatability and hedonic eating.

The brain's cholesterol regulation and metabolism mechanisms may make some neurons more vulnerable to damage in the early ...

Alzheimer’s disease is characterized by a host of recognizable cognitive symptoms, but many non-cognitive symptoms like changes in sleep, anxiety and depression can be early signs of the disease.

From each brain, they collected a sample of the dopamine-producing Substantia Nigra (SN), a region resistant to degeneration in AD, and the noradrenaline-producing Locus Coeruleus (LC), a region ...

The team from the Department of Neurophysiology showed in rats how the so-called locus coeruleus and the ventral tegmental area permanently alter brain activity in the hippocampus region ...

This approach would investigate the function of NA endogenously released by LC NA neurons ... in mediating stress-induced pain hypersensitivity, focusing on the LC (locus coeruleus)-to-SDH (spinal ...