So what does it mean that serotonin neurons clustered together in the brainstem are not independent actors largely keeping to themselves but are actually sending axons to the rest of the brain?

On the horizon: choreographing dopamine and serotonin to improve psychiatric treatment The findings suggest that dopamine and serotonin work together, but in opposite ways, to help the brain learn ...

You’ve probably heard about serotonin, the molecule known as the “happy hormone.” It’s widely thought to play a role in mood, sleep, learning, memory, digestion, and more—in fact ...

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Psychological trauma can result in chronically dysregulated inflammation, which affects the catabolism of an amino acid known as tryptophan, disrupting brain chemistry (in particular glutamate and ...

A team of scientists is proposing a new explanation for some cases of long Covid, based on their findings that serotonin levels were lower in people with the complex condition. In their study ...

This is essentially the system responsible for regulating physiological states through the transmission of serotonin. Chen, her collaborator Mark Andermann, and their colleagues specifically ...

In the early stages of serotonin syndrome people may experience mild serotonin syndrome, which causes symptoms such as tremors, dizziness, and headache. Serotonin syndrome, or serotonin toxicity ...

I wasn't quite aware of it at the time, but I do think writing a 150-page paper on 4 years of my research had maxed out my serotonin system. Subsequently, I have come across a lot of research on ...

Figure 1 Tryptophan-Kynurenine and Serotonin Pathways. ~95% Trp is transported into cytoplasm by LAT. In cytoplasm, tryptophan is initially converted into kynurenine; Kynurenine into ...