A McGill-led study is challenging a popular theory about how dopamine drives movement, a discovery that could shift how scientists think about Parkinson's disease treatments.

Explore dopamine's role in movement and how it challenges long-standing theories about motor control and Parkinson's disease ...

For decades, Parkinson’s disease has been framed as a simple story of dwindling dopamine, a slow erosion of the brain’s ...

Researchers at McGill University have uncovered a surprising twist in how dopamine affects movement, overturning a long-standing belief tied to Parkinson’s disease.

In a breakthrough that could one day help individuals with pathological aggression, researchers at Columbia University identified a specific receptor related to the neurotransmitter dopamine that ...

New findings provide a better understanding of how the synthesis of dopamine is regulated in the brain. It may shed new light on the mechanism behind diseases such as Parkinson's. In our brain, there ...

When you think of dopamine, pleasure and addiction are usually the first two reactions. But think again. Well, dream again: The neurotransmitter plays a role in activating sleepy dreams. Researchers ...

According to Janice Joplin, free will, like freedom, “is just another word for nothin’ left to lose.” According to Sigmund Freud, free will is when “the daemonic forces of the repetition compulsion” ...

Drugs like Adderall and Ritalin appear to help children with ADHD by activating brain areas involved in alertness and ...