A new technology that uses clinical MRI machines to image metabolic activity in the brain could give researchers and ...

A recent study confirms that people with Parkinson's disease have different gut microbiota compared with healthy individuals, suggesting that bacterial imbalance may play a role in this condition.

Current antidepressants act on neurotransmitter systems by affecting three distinct processes: (1) neurotransmitter degradation, (2) neurotransmitter reuptake (reabsorption into the releasing cell ...

Also referred to as chemical messengers, neurotransmitters are chemical agents made and released by neurons. ... pain transmission, metabolism, and many other processes. Dopamine.

Israeli Scientists Find Amyloid Plaques May Cause Alzheimer’s By Accelerating Breakup of Neurotransmitters. By. Hana Levi Julian - 26 Av 5781 – August 3, 2021. 0. Share on Facebook.

Enzyme degradation – neurotransmitter is broken down by an enzyme into smaller inactive product which are then reabsorbed by the presynaptic neuron and resynthesised into active neurotransmitter.

Since the majority of the brain relies on glutamate as the main neurotransmitter for communication between neural cells, ... and Metabolism, 2016; 1 DOI: 10.1139/apnm-2016-0033; Cite This Page ...

People who exercise have better mental fitness, and a new imaging study now shows why. The finding offers new insights into brain metabolism and why exercise could become an important part of ...

Becker said, however, that, “the two functions of B6 in cognition mentioned — i.e., neurotransmitter synthesis and homocysteine metabolism — are thought to be mechanistically interchangeable ...