Within the human brain, movement is coordinated by a brain region called the striatum, which sends instructions to motor neurons in the brain. Those instructions are conveyed by two pathways, one that ...

Three research hospitals in the Republic of Korea are reporting that restless leg syndrome was associated with an increased ...

Although there is a long-standing, common assumption that most -- if not all -- dopamine neurons solely respond to rewards or reward-predicting cues, researchers instead discovered that one genetic ...

"Furthermore, patients with RLS who were not treated with dopamine agonists tended to be at increased risk of developing ...

Dopamine, a key neurotransmitter in the brain, plays a vital role in regulating movement, emotion, and cognition. It is central to the pathology of several major neurological and psychiatric ...

Parkinson’s — which can cause tremors, slow movement and stiffness — is believed to affect 1 in every 336 Americans.

In a discovery that could reshape how we think about memory, researchers at Flinders University have found that forgetting is not just a glitch in the brain but is actually a finely-tuned process, and ...

A finding by a McGill-led team of neuroscientists could open doors to new treatments for a range of psychiatric and neurological disorders attributed to dysfunctions in specific dopamine pathways. For ...

Dopamine: It's not just for rewards anymore. In a new Northwestern University-led study, researchers identified and recorded from three genetic subtypes of dopamine neurons in the midbrain region of a ...

Michael Long is not the typical neuroscience guy. He was trained as a physicist, but is primarily a writer. He coauthored the international bestseller The Molecule of More. As a speechwriter, he has ...