The NMDA receptor, a brain protein crucial for learning and memory, can function as a "frequency discriminator," translating stimulation frequency into current amplitude and possibly deciding whether ...

Elaine C. Budreck, Oh-Bin Kwon, Jung Hoon Jung, Stephane Baudouin, Albert Thommen, Hye-Sun Kim, Yugo Fukazawa, Harumi Harada, Katsuhiko Tabuchi, Ryuichi Shigemoto, Peter Scheiffele, Joung-Hun Kim ...

Two new publications add to growing evidence that toxic Aβ oligomers play havoc with neurons by interfering with N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA)-type glutamate receptors (NMDARs) and Ca2+ flow, but they ...

Sofya Kulikova, a researcher at HSE University in Perm, is part of an international research team that has discovered potential mechanisms that explain the sleep spindle deficit in ...

Three distinct snapshots obtained with cryo-electron microscopy illustrate the arrangement of two of the four symmetrical subunits that make a functional NMDA receptor. During activation, as the ...

Thomas J. Ha, Andrea B. Kohn, Yelena V. Bobkova and Leonid L. Moroz The N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor belongs to the group of ionotropic glutamate receptors and has been implicated in synaptic ...

The amyloid-β (Aβ) peptide is a destroyer of synapses, and its attack on neurotransmission is blamed for devastating memory loss experienced in Alzheimer disease. Now, two new studies suggest that ...

The FDA approved combination dextromethorphan and bupropion extended-release tablets (Auvelity) for adults with major depressive disorder (MDD), Axsome Therapeutics announced on Friday.

The N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors (NMDAR) are cation channels in the brain that play important roles in the transmission of nerve impulses and neuronal plasticity. These ligand-gated channels have ...

Dysfunction of corticolimbic glutamatergic neurotransmission may contribute to or account for the manifestations of psychoses. [41,42] In fact, glutamatergic neurons represent the primary excitatory ...