Hidden switch lets two of four receptor subunits open brain ion channel

To transmit excitatory signals, nerve cells mostly use glutamate as a neurotransmitter. To detect these transmitter signals, ...
Nature

Network control energy reductions under DMT relate to serotonin receptors, signal diversity, and subjective experience

Psychedelics offer a profound window into the human brain through their robust effects on perception, subjective experience, and brain activity patterns. The serotonergic psychedelic ...
Science Daily

Discovery of dopamine receptors in a previously overlooked part of the brain sheds light on the complex circuitry for anxiety and depression

Researchers have discovered distinct roles for two dopamine receptors located on nerve cells within the portion of the brain that controls approach vs. avoidance behavior. Mount Sinai researchers have ...
News Medical

How Brain Cells Talk: Inside the Complex Language of the Human Mind

The human brain contains nearly 86 billion neurons, constantly exchanging messages like an immense social media network, but neurons do not work alone – glial cells, neurotransmitters, receptors, and ...
Nature

A textbook assumption about the brain’s most abundant receptors needs to be rewritten

The AMPA group of brain receptors have mostly been assumed to be calcium impermeable and so were not thought to contribute to the calcium-dependent mechanisms underlying learning and memory.