Noradrenaline - Study provides new insights into how astrocytes help the...
A collaboration between the laboratories of Vincent Bonin (NERF, empowered by VIB, imec and KU Leuven) and Matthew Holt (VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research)...
View ArticleNoradrenaline - Research team identifies a molecule that directs neurons
The habenula is a small region at the centre of the brain, but is crucial for people's lives. It is made up of groups of nerve cells that control the "neurotransmitters" of the...
View ArticleNoradrenaline - How do we disconnect from the environment during sleep and...
A series of new studies finds, among other important discoveries, that noradrenaline, a neurotransmitter secreted in response to stress, lies at the heart of our ability to...
View ArticleNoradrenaline - Riluzole augmentation may help veterans with PTSD who are...
Augmentation of selective serotonin or serotonin-noradrenaline reuptake inhibitors with riluzole may improve PTSD hyperarousal symptoms, according to study results published in...
View ArticleThe future's uncertain, but noradrenaline can help us adapt
A brain chemical called noradrenaline is responsible for our responses to uncertain situations - helping us to learn quickly and adapt our behavior, a new study has found.
View ArticleNoradrenaline - New Mechanism Improves Chronic Pain Management
By suppressing the signals of astrocytes in the spinal cord by noradrenaline, the effect of drugs for chronic pain can be increased.v
View ArticleNoradrenaline - How Exercise Affects Stress Hormones
With all the benefits that exercise offers, it still places short-term stress on your body, but, in moderation, it's a “healthy kind of stress. In fact, the stress of exercise...
View ArticleNoradrenaline - Study provides new insight into the effects of antidepressant...
The effects of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors and other conventional antidepressants are believed to be based on their increasing the levels of serotonin and...
View ArticleNoradrenaline - Molecular modeling helps identify the binding site of...
The effects of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors and other conventional antidepressants are believed to be based on their increasing the levels of serotonin and...
View ArticleNoradrenaline - Stress slows the immune response in sick mice
The neurotransmitter noradrenaline, which plays a key role in the fight-or-flight stress response, impairs immune responses by inhibiting the movements of various white blood...
View ArticleNoradrenaline - The Best Time and Way to Check Your Resting and Exercise...
It's pretty common to check your exercise heart rate during or after a workout. Some people even wear fitness trackers to keep an eye on their heart rate. As long as you know...
View ArticleNoradrenaline - Differential localization may explain different physiological...
In the heart there are two different subtypes of beta-adrenergic receptors - beta1 and beta2 - which are activated by the stress hormones adrenaline and noradrenaline.
View ArticleNoradrenaline - How the brain's blue spot helps us focus our attention
How can we shift from a state of inattentiveness to one of highest attention? The locus coeruleus, literally the 'blue spot,' is a tiny cluster of cells at the base of the...
View ArticleNoradrenaline - How the brain responds to surprising events
MIT researchers have found that one key role of the neuromodulator noradrenaline, produced by the locus coeruleus, is to help the brain learn from surprising outcomes.
View ArticleSurprising outcomes trigger release of noradrenaline in the brain, MIT study...
When your brain needs you to pay attention to something important, one way it can do that is to send out a burst of noradrenaline, according to a new MIT study.
View ArticleNoradrenaline - Stress transmitter wakes your brain more than 100 times a...
You may think that a good night's sleep should be uninterrupted. But in fact, the neurotransmitter noradrenaline causes you to wake up more than 100 times a night, new research...
View ArticleNoradrenaline - New imaging system reveals how female and male hearts respond...
A new study published in Science Advances shows female and male hearts respond differently to the stress hormone noradrenaline.
View ArticleNoradrenaline - Stress Affects Male and Female Hearts Differently
Hearts of female mice responded differently from hearts of male mice when exposed to the stress hormone noradrenaline. Quick Take
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