A major discovery reveals that metformin works not just in the body, but in the brain. By switching off a key protein and activating specific neurons, the drug lowers blood sugar through a previously ...

A newly identified brain circuit may hold the key to understanding why some pain fades while other pain lingers long after ...

How do brain regions communicate? Researchers introduce a new optogenetic method to target long-distance circuits in ...

Anyone who has weathered a bad stomach bug knows the feeling: a loss of appetite that sets in and lingers, even after the ...

Metformin has been used for years to help people with Type 2 Diabetes control their blood sugar. Now, scientists have discovered that the drug also has a significant impact on the brain."It's been ...

A series of recent studies in mice and rats has mapped specific brain circuits that appear to drive chronic pain, identifying ...

Metformin has been prescribed to people with type 2 diabetes to manage blood sugar for more than 60 years, but scientists ...

Why do stressful moments so often push people toward habits like drinking? A new study from Texas A&M University offers one ...

A new map of a brain circuit specific to chronic pain suggests a promising route to treatment for the roughly 60 million ...

Gut microbiome changes may drive age-related memory loss via inflammation and disrupted brain signaling, but interventions in mice show this process can be reversed.

While diabetes medications are not considered as targeting the brain, the study, published in the journal Science Advances, ...