A new study led by an interdisciplinary University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine team delivers fascinating findings on this big topic and potentially unravels a hidden aspect of what our nervous ...

Serotonin is often painted as the brain's "pleasure chemical" but its precise role in the nervous system is ambiguous and perplexing: It's implicated in everything from mood and movement ...

New research reveals that serotonin plays a key role in how the brain predicts future rewards, shedding light on its puzzling activity in response to both pleasure and pain.

Regulatory T cells, which are typically anti-inflammatory, could help prevent the infant immune system from overreacting to new environmental stimuli and foods, a process known as tolerance. Zeng and ...

"Targeting the dopamine system is one of the ways in which we can look at potential mechanisms and treatments for depressive behaviors," Avena says. Insider's takeaway Dopamine and serotonin are ...

Common medications used to treat depression in humans act on the serotonin system. Based on the researcher's work with robots, the lab developed the hypothesis that the neurotransmitter serotonin ...

The physiology of serotonin is complex and involves synthesis, transport, reuptake and receptor activation 6. Circulating serotonin is produced in the duodenum by enterochromaffin cells ...

Dexfenfluramine (a SERT substrate) mediates PAH experimentally via its actions on the serotinergic system. Increased activation of the serotonin system or the SERT may be a 'second-hit' risk ...