The mechanisms by which antidepressants and other emotion-focused medications work could be reconsidered due to an advance in the understanding of how the gut communicates with the brain. "The ...

The research findings could have wide-reaching implications for our understanding of the interplay between nerves and muscle throughout the body. An international research team led by a uOttawa ...

The idea that the nervous system passes messages from one nerve cell to another only through synapses — the points where the cells link up end to end — is changing. Two studies show how messages can ...

“This new intermediate structure, called a primed state, is extremely important because it plays a critical role shaping neuromuscular communication,” says Dr. John Baenziger, senior author of the ...