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A molecular approach to autism

… year showed that a drug that mimics some of the actions of GABA, thereby suppressing glutamate in the mGluR5 pathway, … autism caused by the 16p11.2 mutation. Meanwhile that same GABA-boosting drug, arbaclofen, was undergoing testing in …

Dopamine signaling allows neural circuits to generate coordinated behaviors

June 11, 2020

Dopamine coordination of motor behaviors

… movement, it releases dopamine to override the release of GABA, another neuromodulator, that otherwise inhibits egg …

Study reveals how an anesthesia drug induces unconsciousness

July 15, 2024

… Losing consciousness Propofol is a drug that binds to GABA receptors in the brain, inhibiting neurons that have …

A neuron’s neighbors

March 14, 2025

… maintain the supply of the inhibitory neurotransmitter GABA in neurons of the visual cortex. Doing so impaired the …

Next-generation tissue expansion method improves neural imaging

January 13, 2022

… labeling components of receptors for the neurotransmitter GABA in inhibitory synapses (so called because they reduce a …

New algorithms show accuracy, reliability in gauging unconsciousness under general anesthesia

May 06, 2021

… it works in a similar manner, by binding to the same GABA-A receptors on the same key types of brain cells. The …