Acetylcholine plays a vital role as a neurotransmitter that oversees cognitive tasks, memory, and the regulation of mood. With aging, our body’s generation of acetylcholine decreases ...

Junk food in general – or a diet rich in fat and sugar – may cause long-term damage to adolescent brains, research suggests.

Anticholinergics are drugs that block acetylcholine and can help in the treatment of Parkinson's disease, allergies, insomnia ...

If you’ve been diagnosed with major depressive disorder, seasonal affective depression or any other type of depression, your ...

Cytisinicline is a partial agonist of α4β2 nicotinic acetylcholine receptors that mediate nicotine dependence. In a prior ...

Several experts state that even 10 minutes a day of mindful meditation can profoundly impact stress levels and feelings of ...

Molecular-cloning studies have revealed the existence of five molecularly distinct mammalian muscarinic acetylcholine receptors (mAChRs), M 1 –M 5, which are all members of the superfamily of ...

Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: NBIX) today announced the initiation of its Phase 1 first-in-human clinical study to evaluate the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics, and pharmacodynamics of ...

In myasthenia gravis, the immune system makes antibodies that block, alter, or destroy receptors for acetylcholine—a chemical that nerve cells use to communicate. When electric signals travel through ...

This happens because stress hormones are reduced and acetylcholine, the chief neurotransmitter in your parasympathetic ...

The neurotransmitters—in our example, acetylcholine, a common variety—bind onto receptors (shown here as green blossoms) on the surface of the recipient neuron. This opens channels in the cell ...