Dangers come but dangers also go and when they do, the brain has an "all-clear" signal that teaches it to extinguish its fear ...

A new study reveals that dopamine release along a specific brain circuit helps extinguish fear by activating reward-related ...

The cell loss caused by Parkinson’s results in a lack of dopamine—a key neurotransmitter—in the brain, so many Parkinson’s ...

In a small study, researchers transplanted stem cells into the brains of 12 Parkinson’s patients, stopping progression and ...

In a first-of-its-kind human trial, researchers transplanted iPS-cell-derived dopaminergic progenitors into patients with ...

Try these research-backed, good-for-you activities to give yourself a surge of dopamine — and the resulting mood boost.

Parkinson’s disease primarily affects dopamine neurons in the substantia nigra, a region of the brain crucial for movement and emotional regulation. As these neurons die, the brain’s dopamine levels ...

To be honest, I hadn’t really thought about it all that much. In my estimation, it didn’t seem to be out of the ordinary — not at all. And for ...

Clinical trials show stem cell therapies for Parkinson's disease are safe, potentially offering more effective treatment with ...

Dangers come but dangers also go and when they do, the brain has an "all-clear" signal that teaches it to extinguish its fear. A new study in mice by ...

Commensurate with the degree of dopamine connectivity, Ppp1r1b cells had more receptors than Rspo2 neurons. Dopamine does a lot of things, so the next question was whether its activity in the ...