The new drug has already passed Phase 1 safety trials in humans, making it a "strong candidate" for future PTSD treatments.

Researchers discovered that PTSD may be driven by excess GABA from astrocytes, not neurons. This chemical imbalance disrupts ...

Did you know that patients with post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) often struggle to forget traumatic memories, even long ...

Excessive levels of GABA released by astrocytes impair the brain's ability to extinguish fear responses in PTSD, but a newly ...

Patients with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) often struggle to forget traumatic memories, even long after the danger ...

GABA receptors in brain could be targets to treat depression and its cognitive symptoms Peer-Reviewed Publication University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau ...

Neurotransmitters initiate their action when they bind to a receptor on their target cell. A receptor is a small protein that can attach to a specific chemical or hormone in the body.

B vitamins, particularly folate, B6 and B12, play crucial roles in the synthesis of serotonin, dopamine and GABA, the primary inhibitory neurotransmitter.

Xu said. Serotonin is primarily synthesized by neurons in the dorsal Raphe nucleus (DRN) in the midbrain. Serotonin neurons in the DRN project to numerous brain regions, including the arcuate of the ...

"One is the GABA A receptor, a chloride channel, found to be important in regulating serotonin circuits during hunger-driven feeding, but not during non-hunger driven feeding," Xu said.