Researchers at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre (SWC) at UCL have unveiled the precise brain mechanisms that enable animals to ...

Researchers have identified brain mechanisms that help animals suppress instinctive fear responses when threats prove ...

Neuroscientists at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre (SWC) at University College London have uncovered a neural mechanism in mice ...

Surprisingly, activated single place cells release endocannabinoids and the signals ... the researchers found that disrupting ...

Researcher suggest findings could help understand what happens in the brain when fear response regulation is impaired.

His advisor, University of California, Irvine, researcher Daniele Piomelli, had discovered eight years earlier that hungry rats have high levels of endocannabinoids, endogenous molecules that bind to ...

Cannabinoids, the active components of Cannabis sativa and their derivatives, act in the organism by mimicking endogenous substances, the endocannabinoids, that activate specific cannabinoid ...

Two brain regions work together when mice learn to override the instinct to run and hide from a potential threat.

In the brain, endocannabinoids play a key role in food intake and ... at the CHUM Research Centre (CRCHUM), and her team have been dissecting the neural mechanisms that control food motivation and ...

Splanchnic vasodilation increases the production of vasodilators (nitric oxide, carbon monoxide, prostacyclins and endocannabinoids ... these compensatory mechanisms lead to sodium retention ...

Researchers have unveiled the precise brain mechanisms that enable animals to overcome instinctive fears. The study in mice could have implications for developing therapeutics for fear-related ...

We wanted to understand the brain mechanisms that underlie such forms ... triggered by the release of endocannabinoids—brain-internal messenger molecules known to regulate mood and memory.