University of Southern California-led researchers have discovered the structural details of a brain receptor called GPR6, ...

In the formation mechanism of eumelanin, a type of melanin found throughout nature, for which both DOPA and dopamine serve as precursors, the general agreement is that the committed step involves ...

Dopamine, a chemical messenger in the brain, used to be neuroscience jargon — something you’d read about in a biology ...

Naturally rewarding stimuli (i.e. food, sex, etc) increase the activity of dopamine cells in the mesocorticolimbic dopamine system causing increased dopamine release in brain areas such as the nucleus ...

New therapies that are less intrusive but more lasting than current interventions promise to arrest and even reverse neurodegeneration.

Midbrain dopamine and cortical interneurons — Left panels ... Directing neural crest and sensory placode lineages Multipotent neural crest (NC) precursor cells have the ability to yield a broad range ...

Human pluripotent stem cell–derived dopamine neurons after transplantation into the brain of a Parkinsonian ... Collaborative studies are ongoing to explore the potential of hPSC derivatives such as ...