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Neuropharmacology (57 articles)
- Disconnect Half a Brain and It Takes a Permanent Nap (While You're Awake)
- Brain Tumors Are Sneaky: They're Learning to Talk Like Neurons
- Chronic Stress Breaks the Brain's Norepinephrine Control System
- Different Species Learn Eyeblink Conditioning Differently (Maybe Learning Isn't So Conserved)
- Astrocytes Have a Secret Fuel Source (And It Changes How They React to Inflammation)
- Gene Therapy for Epilepsy and Autism Is Finally Getting Personal
- Cancer's Sneaky Pain Plot: How Tumors Hijack Your Nerves to Dodge the Immune System
- Blood Proteins in Former Rugby Players Show Signs of Alzheimer's and CTE Pathology
- A Stress Hormone in the Brain Keeps Repair Cells from Growing Up Too Fast
- Growing Mini-Brains in a Dish to Finally Crack the Stroke Problem
- A Promising MS Drug Just Failed a Big Trial (And Publishing That Matters)
- Brain-Computer Interfaces Have Been Playing a Frustrating Game of Telephone. Now There's a Better Way.
- A New Gene Therapy Virus Gets Into the Brain 100 Times Better Than Current Ones
- Engineers Built a Brain Probe You Can Steer With Magnets, and It Works Shockingly Well
- Lonely Adolescence Rewires the Brain's Drug-Seeking Circuits
- Your Nervous System Has Been Helping Tumors Hide From Your Immune System This Whole Time
- Scientists Built a Serotonin Detector by Copying the Brain's Own Receptors
- Scientists Figured Out How to Remote-Control Individual Cells in a Living Monkey's Eye
- Male and Female Mice Have Different Musical Tastes (And It Rewires Their Brains Differently)
- When Part of Your Nerve Gets Hurt, the Healthy Part Says "Chill, I Got This"
- Your Brain's Sensory Bouncer Is Stuck Letting Everyone In, And That's a Problem
- Your Urethra Has Taste Buds, and They're Starting Fights
- Your Immune System Might Be Sabotaging Itself, and You'd Never Know Until It's Too Late
- Your Brain Holds Onto Bad Expectations Way Longer Than Good Ones
- Your Gut Bacteria Apparently Want You to Skip Meals, and Your Brain Might Thank Them
- Your Cells Have a Secret Handshake Between the Warehouse and the Front Door
- Why Losing One Brake Makes Your Body Clock Speed Up
- The Brain's "Support Staff" Were Running a Secret Operation (And It Matters for Down Syndrome)
- The "Simple" Worm Everyone Studies Was Hiding Sophisticated Math All Along
- These Cancer Cells Figured Out How to Plug Into Your Brain's Electrical System
- When Synapses Get Too Quiet, Neurons Need a Specific Protein to Turn Up the Volume
- What Happens in Your Brain When You Mentally Check Out (Spoiler: It's Not Pretty)
- The Brain's Own Sedatives Explain Why Some New Mothers Get Severely Depressed
- The Cells Running Your Emotional Memory System Aren't Even Neurons
- This Random RNA Protein Turns Out to Be the Bouncer at Your Brain's Door
- What If Antidepressants Could Fight Cancer? (The Science Is Better Than It Sounds)
- Why Nerve Injuries Make Everything Hurt More: A Protein With a Demolition Habit
- Why Cancer Drugs That Work in a Dish Keep Failing in Patients (Hint: You Forgot the Nerves)
- This Antibody Only Hunts the Bad Version of Tau, and It Actually Works
- Want to Live Longer? Let Your Neurons Panic About Oxygen (Just a Little)
- Your Body Clock Has a Secret Wiring Crew (And They're Not Even Neurons)
- Why Some People Fall for Misinformation (It's Cognitive, Psychological, and Maybe Pharmacological)
- Special Smell-Processing Units Have Their Own Unique Wiring Rules
- Scientists Figured Out Why Some Nerve Cells Die by Iron Poisoning (And How to Stop It)
- Scientists Can Now Watch Individual Viruses Sneak Into Cells in Real Time
- STING Kills Neurons Directly (No Inflammation Required)
- Scientists Can Now 3D-Print Brain Circuits One Neuron at a Time (Then They Tested Something Wonderfully Obscure)
- Meth Has a Secret Second Target, and It Changes Everything About Treatment
- Scientists Catch the Brain's Neurotransmitter Pump in Action (And See How Amphetamines Hijack It)
- Scientists Found the Brain's "Chronic Pain Switch" - And It Might Be Hackable
- Scientists Found a Molecular Off-Switch That Could Stop Nerve Damage in a Brutal Inherited Disease
- Scientists Finally Figured Out What This ALS Protein Does All Day (Spoiler: Takes Out the Trash)
- Ketamine Works for Depression in Hours, and We Still Don't Really Know Why
- Researchers Found the Exact Neurons Causing Seizures in a Devastating Genetic Disease
- If Your Pain Follows a Daily Rhythm, You Might Have Better Luck Avoiding Opioids
- How to Lie With Science: The Art of Cherry-Picking Studies to Scare People
- Scientists Map What Goes Wrong in Diabetic Nerve Damage - Cell by Cell