Elizabeth Jonas first got interested in mitochondria by chance. In 1995, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Yale, working ...

Currently dopamine replacement medications, like levodopa and dopamine agonists, are the primary treatment for Parkinson's ...

Mild physical activity, such as a short, slow run, can temporarily but effectively boost executive function. Previous rodent ...

Transforming growth factor (TGF)-α is neurotrophic for midbrain dopaminergic neurons in vitro. Here I investigated whether a null mutation in the TGF-α gene affects the normal development or ...

Fifty years of outstanding neuroscience research studies have revealed many secrets of how drugs of abuse affect and change ...

eLife Assessment This study provides important findings on the neural circuits underlying dishabituation of the olfactory avoidance response in Drosophila. The data as presented provide solid evidence ...

Copine-6 is a calcium-sensitive phospholipid-binding protein of the evolutionarily conserved Copine family. In the central nervous system, Copine-6 regulates function of some neurotransmitter ...

Scientists have discovered that neurons exposed to Botox (botulinum toxin A) don't just survive—they fight back. A new study shows that tiny fragments of tRNA, a type of genetic material, help ...

In this paper Weber et al. investigate the role of 4 dopaminergic neurons of the Drosophila larva in mediating the association between an aversive high-salt stimulus and a neutral odor. The 4 DANs ...

Neurons talk to one another using electricity. If you could hear these impulses, they might sound like constant, rapid-fire chatter all over the nervous system. Heart muscle cells do something ...

The most basic functional property of neurons is the capacity to transmit information from one cell to another largely by changes in electrical activity in the form of action potentials. Our ...