The grocery store aisles are packed with products promising better health, cleaner eating, and natural goodness. Marketing ...

Loss of the glutamate transporters EAAT5b and EAAT7 disrupts wavelength-specific visual processing and UV-dependent prey detection in zebrafish, revealing their key roles in modulating light ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Glutamate, arguably the most important ...

The liver is a vital organ, crucial to digestion, metabolism and the elimination of toxins. It has a unique ability, regeneration, which allows it to replace liver cells damaged by the very toxins ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – For decades, scientists thought acetylcholine was the only neurotransmitter responsible for controlling how muscles and nerves are wired together during development. Turns out, they ...

New findings offer clues about how misused drugs affect healthy brains and hint at an undiscovered link between glutamate and mood. A new study shows that healthy people who take attention deficit ...

MSG, as a food additive has gained quite a controversial reputation, considering the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has received many anecdotal reports of adverse reactions to foods containing MSG ...

Craving consists of cognitive, emotional, and behavioral elements related to a desire to drink alcohol, and can be experienced during intoxication, withdrawal, and/or prior to relapse. Different types ...

Medications, such as cholinesterase inhibitors and glutamate regulators, can treat memory loss. They can help manage a person’s memory loss symptoms and modify the progression of their condition.

NMDA (short for N-methyl-D-aspartate) receptor antagonists are a class of drugs that may help treat Alzheimer's disease, which causes memory loss, brain damage, and, eventually, death. There's no cure ...