A new University of Manchester and Edinburgh study published in the journal Brain, Behavior and Immunity has found that ...

Alcohol use is widespread and alcohol use disorder (AUD) causes substantial harm. AUD affects 29 million individuals and ...

Narcolepsy can lead to excessive daytime sleepiness, as well as cataplexy, a sudden loss of muscle tone. Other symptoms can include sleep paralysis and hallucinations that occur both during sleep ...

From electronic health records and blood tests to the stream of data from wearable devices, the amount of health information people generate is accelerating rapidly. Yet, many users struggle to ...

Journal Editorial Report: The Fed Chief signals rate cuts are coming. As we saw during the Covid pandemic, lab-created experiments can wreak havoc when they escape their confines. Once released, they ...

Focalin and Adderall are medications used to treat ADHD by increasing dopamine and norepinephrine levels in the brain. Focalin is better suited for children and adolescents, while Adderall may be more ...

Many paediatric ICU (PICU) prescribers lacked knowledge about norepinephrine (NE) formulations they prescribed, creating risks in paediatric hypotensive shock. The self-reported nature of the survey ...

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have upended decades-old dogma of how connections between brain cells are rearranged during states of heightened vigilance or ...

Once triggered by norepinephrine, astrocytes produced a second chemical that they released onto synapses, which caused the dampening of synapse activity. Even when neurons’ ability to directly sense ...