by Max Planck Society Autophagy is like the garbage disposal program of a cell, through which it disposes unusable material. Credit: Pixabay_Hans For the first time, the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry and the University Hospital Bonn have been able to directly link a stress factor in the brain to the cell’s recycling system and...
by ETH Zurich Researchers at ETH Zurich have shown for the first time that selective release of the neurotransmitter noradrenaline reconfigures communication between large-scale networks in the brain. Their findings provide insights into rapid neural processes that occur in the brain during stressful situations. In moments of acute stress—for example, a life-threatening situation in road traffic—our brain has just...
