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One of the brain's most important chemical messengers has led Johns Hopkins School of Medicine researchers on a wild ride. Primarily interested in how and why nerve cells die in neurodegenerative ...

While the neurotransmitter glutamate is the major excitatory messenger in the brain, the neurotransmitter GABA is the major inhibitory messenger, sending signals that reduce excitation and anxiety.

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Glutamate imaging may be capable of identifying the focus of epileptic seizures in patients who appear to have nonlesional epilepsy on standard imaging techniques, researchers report in Science ...

Long before CBD was a household name, parents of kids with epilepsy were engaging in a whisper network: a non-psychoactive compound found in cannabis and hemp, they said, had helped reduce or ...

A preclinical study by biomedical scientists at the University of California, Riverside, has shown why some people with multiple sclerosis also suffer from seizures — a debilitating complication that ...