Two of the most studied forms of plasticity, long-term potentiation (LTP) and long-term depression (LTD), involve both glutamate and GABA (γ-aminobutyric acid) receptors, and it is becoming clear ...

γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA), whether it be lower levels of GABA or the receptor it binds to. But a study published last week (October 3) in Science Translational Medicine, which zeroed in on GABA ...

The nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs ... serotonin, glutamate and GABA (γ-aminobutyric acid). The principal difficulty in targeting drugs to nAChRs in the brain arises from the broad ...

Finally, the SSRI-induced increase in serotonin concentration potentially impacts numerous serotonin receptor subtypes, spanning multiple signaling processes (pre- and post-synaptic, excitatory ...

These sleeping pills work on the GABA receptors in the brain, which help control our level of alertness or relaxation. The selective GABA medications target only a certain type of GABA receptor ...