Topic: Eric Nestler
See Carl Zimmer's new ebook, Brain Cuttings, available at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and carlzimmer. Meanwhile, the rat that had gotten more attention from its mother was not so easily startled, was more curious, and did not suffer surges of stress ...
US scientists have found a key mechanism in the brain that helps explain why cocaine is so addictive and could pave the way towards a potential cure, a study showed Thursday.Researchers revealed how the highly-addictive drug brings on changes in the ...
TH Many remember those fried-egg " "The study's findings enable us to glimpse for the first time exactly how cocaine modifies the activity of genes in regions of the brain that that mediate reward," explained Nora Volkow, the director of the U ...
New research into how cocaine affects the brain could lead to the development of medications to treat cocaine addiction by blocking the drug's rewarding effects. Researchers led by Eric Nestler, M.D., Ph.D., of Mount Sinai School of Medicine in ...
The social avoidance that normally develops when a mouse repeatedly experiences defeat by a dominant animal disappears when it lacks a gene for a memory molecule in a brain circuit for social learning, scientists funded by the National Institutes of Health's ...
molecular scar" in its brain that could help to explain why depression is so difficult to cure, suggest researchers funded by NIMH. A true cure for depression would likely have to target this persistent stress-induced scar, say the researchers, led by Eric ...
Epigenetics - the examination of how environmental factors like diet, stress, and post-natal maternal behavior can change gene function without altering DNA sequence - plays a major role in depression and in the actions of antidepressant medications. "The mechanisms that precipitate depression, such as ...
New studies in the field of epigenetics -- which looks at how environmental factors can change gene function without altering DNA sequence -- are identifying new molecular targets that may lead to improved drug treatment of depression, scientists report.. "The mechanisms that precipitate depression ...
The neural activity and physical behavior of mice recovering from several stressful encounters may illustrate alternative ways that mammals respond to traumatic events.. In an earlier study, the research team, led by U.T. Southwestern psychiatry professor Eric Nestler, found that levels ...
Researchers have identified molecular mechanisms in the brain that may explain why some people are less vulnerable to the stress caused by difficult situations.. While the research was done with mice, the findings could eventually lead to better treatments for chronic stress ...
