Researchers have identified a critical biological difference in how glioblastoma develops in male and female laboratory ...

Gamma-aminobutyric acid, or GABA, is a neurotransmitter that sends chemical messages through the brain and the nervous system and is involved in regulating communication between brain cells. The role ...

CURE GABA-A would like to thank the Fernandez, Bornstein and Elnekaveh Families for their generous financial contribution, as well as COMBINEDBrain, led by Terry Jo Bichell, SLC6A1 Connect, led by ...

The normal functioning of the brain depends on a network of GABAergic interneurons, which control the excitability of principal neurons and are responsible for oscillatory behaviors that may be ...

The versatile neurotransmitter GABA acquires a new role in the control of appetite by the hypothalamus. In this region of the brain, a regulator of GABA A receptor expression seems to respond to ...

Diabetes is a disease affecting two pancreatic hormones — insulin and glucagon. In healthy people, insulin helps cells take up glucose from the blood when glucose levels are high. In contrast, ...

In a groundbreaking review paper published in Nature Reviews Neuroscience, scientists have shed new light on the role of GABA, a key signaling molecule in the brain. Researchers from the Center for ...

It’s a well-known messenger in the brain: a neurotransmitter dubbed GABA that mellows us out. Drug developers have been tinkering with it for decades, and they’ve scored some big hits, notably Xanax ...

What do sedatives, general anesthetics, anti-anxiety drugs, alcohol, numerous recreational drugs, and allopregnanolone, a neurosteroid being tested in Alzheimer’s trials, have in common? They all ...

Depression is a complex condition correlated with multiple differences in brain function and mechanisms. A new study spanning known data about the neurotransmitter GABA and its principal receptors ...

GABA is one of the supplements patients ask me about a lot, often with looks of confusion on their faces. I think the confusion comes from the fact that GABA is both a chemical produced within the ...