Less stress and better sleep? One brain-boosting supplement promises to deliver all that and more in pill form. Found in everyday foods like spinach, almonds, black beans, and avocados, our bodies ...

Scientists have identified a potential “brake” in the brain that could help reduce severe chronic pain, after mapping pain signals in individual patients and using targeted electrical stimulation to ...

Newswise — Deep at the base of the brain, a tiny cluster of nerve cells serves as the body’s natural pain reliever, dialing down pain signals traveling up the spinal cord. But nerve damage can flip ...

An important chemical messenger that typically inhibits brain activity might sometimes do the opposite, according to new Yale School of Medicine (YSM) research. One way that brain cells communicate is ...

A team of scientists led by the Institute for Glial Sciences (IGS) at Case Western Reserve University's School of Medicine has discovered a built-in "brake" that controls when key brain cells mature.

In a Thought Leaders Invited Review, Dr. Hongling Guo and colleagues synthesize molecular, circuit, and clinical evidence showing how somatostatin neurons shape the stressed brain. SHENZHEN, Guangdong ...

A cluster of nerve cells (cyan, right) in the mouse brain (cyan, left) play a role in both pain relief and the generation of chronic pain. WashU Medicine researchers found that certain receptors on ...