Cultured sympathetic neurons contain an excitatory transmitter, norepinephrine, and one that is inhibitory, acetylcholine. A new paper shows that BDNF increases the ratio of acetylcholine to ...

Yes, and by studying how these drugs act upon the brain we are beginning to understand better what causes nightmares and how to prevent them. One way to understand nightmares is to consider the ...

Researchers at RIKEN Center for Brain Science have visualized the dynamic processes involving norepinephrine that influence different types of fear-memory formation in a living mouse model. The study ...

Stimulation of the hypogastric nerve to the guinea pig vas deferens in the presence of phenoxybenzamine produced an enhanced release of both dopamine-β -hydroxylase (EC 1.14.2.1) and norepinephrine.