Twenty years of research have established the connection between adverse childhood experiences and long-term health. Now researchers are looking for ways to measure the biology behind the correlation and try to reverse it.

Dopamine doesn’t just send messages between neurons. Parkinson’s and addiction research reveals it can directly bind to proteins, helping turn genes on and off in a process called ‘dopaminylation.’

Learn about the National Eye Institute’s effort to restore vision in difficult-to-treat eye diseases.

The discovery in the late 1950s that the level of dopamine was decreased in the brains of Parkinson’s patients was followed in the 1960s by successful treatment with the drug levodopa, which is converted to dopamine in the brain. This historical event is one of the greatest medical breakthroughs in the field of neurology.

Diet, exercise, and mental stimulation can keep our brains healthy as we age.

How tightly is violence tied to mental illness? Not as tight as US journalism makes it appear, researchers say.

Fear responses help us confront life-threatening situations — but not all fears threaten our survival. Through fear conditioning, we can come to fear otherwise harmless scenarios.

Stories help people connect with each other and make sense of the world.

When the Calgary Brain Bank receives a donation, neuroscientist Jeffrey Joseph meticulously divvies up tissue samples for researchers to study.

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