Ketamine has promise as a potential treatment for bipolar depression, particularly for people whose condition hasn’t ...

A Baton Rouge mom started a nonprofit organization with several other families after losing her only child to a rare disorder ...

As a monotherapy, glutamatergic medications show promise in treating obsessive-compulsive and related disorders, particularly OCD.

The FDA has granted Breakthrough Therapy designation to radiprodil for the treatment of seizures associated with GRIN-related neurodevelopmental disorder with GoF mutations.

A recent study published in Engineering delves into the complex mechanisms of drug addiction, highlighting the crucial role of astrocytic G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs).

Dissociative amnesia is the most common dissociative disorder, which are conditions that cause people to feel detached or disconnected from themselves or reality. In dissociative amnesia ...

Injury (trauma or ischemia) in the brain triggers an abnormal release of glutamate and other excitatory aminoacids that contribute significantly to neuronal death [1,2]. This phenomenon, named ...

Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is a type of excessive worrying that consumes the lives of people who experience it. Symptoms can include fatigue, headaches, shortness of breath, and having a hard ...

Somatic symptom disorder (SSD) is a mental disorder in which a person has excessive thoughts and behaviors about physical symptoms—such as pain or fatigue—which may or may not have a medical cause.

Immunological disorders are diseases or conditions caused by a dysfunction of the immune system and include allergy, asthma, autoimmune diseases, autoinflammatory syndromes and immunological ...

These sleep loss changes are recovered by sleep. Sleep genes are enriched for synaptic shaping cellular components controlling glutamate synapse phenotype, overlap with autism risk genes, and are ...

Sleep problems can be caused by various factors. Although causes may differ, the end result of all sleep disorders is that the body's natural cycle of slumber and daytime wakefulness is disrupted ...