Based on new brain mapping research funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), scientists have discovered ...

The brain doesn't just want what it enjoys. It wants things for the sake of it.

all types of addictions (substances or behavioral) mediate the effect of dopamine and are affected by dopamine. Many medical and psychiatric conditions involve neurotransmitter dysfunction.

There are two types of removal: Re-uptake – the neurotransmitter is reabsorbed back into the presynaptic neuron and restored inside a vesicle ready to be used again. For example, noradrenaline.

They observed hundreds of presynaptic terminals simultaneously releasing the neurotransmitter. It turns out that all the compounds they had made covered a range of lipophilicities, and FFN511 was ...