Sentences with phrase «receptors in the brain»

Headaches The combination of diuretic and stimulant pulsing through the body can cause the receptors in the brain to become overloaded, leading to a headache.

The chemicals in both bind to the mu opioid receptor in the brain.

There are no pain receptors in the brain at that stage.

A drug called naltrexone, which blocks the receptors in your brain that make alcohol «work.»

I refuse to jump on the bandwagon of religion but my receptors in my brain and heart are very much open now....

Essential oils work by «waking up» certain receptors in the brain, and thus having a healing effect on the body, both emotionally and physically.

Cannabinoids are why we're here: They're chemical compounds that act on receptors in the brain and can alter neural function.

It is believed that the flavonoids in Chamomile bind to receptors in the brain, causing mild sedation effects, helping to induce sleep.

«There are receptors in the brain for melatonin that regulate brain chemicals related to anxiety and calming,» he explains.

This oxytocin, acting on multiple oxytocin receptors in the brain (Klaus and Kennel, 2001) plays the following roles:

Nurturing actually helps determine the number, distribution and sensitivity of oxytocin receptors in the brain.

Vivitrol, on the other hand, is designed to block opioid receptors in the brain, which prevents users from getting high and, in theory, helps break their addiction.

Opiates, of course, are natural or synthetic substances that bind to opiate receptors in the brain, and are chemically similar to alkaloid compounds derived from Papaver somniferum, or the opium poppy.

«The reason why opiates are so deadly is because, what happens is those opiates sit on the receptors in your brain,» said Sen. David Carlucci.

They're actually psycho - tropic drugs that bind to cannabinoid receptors in the brain, but then they act nothing like cannabis does in the brain.

As they studied brain activity in the knockout mice, the researchers also found prominent changes in a receptor in the brain known as mGluR5 and other proteins that support the function of neurons and synapses, said co-lead author Xiaoming Wang, M.D., Ph.D., senior research associate in Duke's department of pediatrics.

This works as other general anesthetics work, acting on receptors in the brain — possibly the GABA [gamma - aminobutyric acid] receptors, because that is a mechanism for a lot of sleepiness in the brain.

In cases of anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis, antibodies attack N - methyl - D - aspartate (NMDA) receptors in the brain.

Five patients received isradipine, and three took naltrexone (ReVia), a drug that acts on the opioid receptor in the brain.

Melinda Wilson, an associate professor at the University of Kentucky who is studying the role of estrogen receptors in the brain, says that her group had applied for NSF funding several times.

The PAM used in the IU - led study worked by amplifying two brain compounds — anandamide and 2 - arachidonoylglycerol — commonly called «endocannabinoids» because they act upon the CB1 receptor in the brain that responds to THC, the major psychoactive ingredient in cannabis.

Perhaps most significantly, in a study led by Frances Champagne — then a graduate student in Meaney's lab, now an associate professor with her own lab at Columbia University in New York — they found that inattentive mothering in rodents causes methylation of the genes for estrogen receptors in the brain.

To find evidence for the phenomenon, her team began looking for MHCI receptors in the brain — literally, molecules that would connect with MHCI to help get the message through.

If snake venom has a similar structure to parts of the virus, and inhibits these receptors, we thought maybe the virus could also inhibit these receptors in the brain.

Methadone is an inexpensive opioid medication that targets the same receptors in the brain as opioid drugs, but is much longer - lasting than heroin or morphine.

Dr Milos Petrovic, co-author of the study and Reader in Neuroscience at the University of Central Lancashire added: «Untangling the interactions between the signal receptors in the brain not only tells us more about the inner workings of a healthy brain, but also provides a practical insight into what happens when we form new memories.

Now researchers report that they have sorted out how the drug toys with nicotine receptors in the brain.

This illustration shows how the rabies virus inhibits nicotinic receptors in the brain, which interferes with communication and induces frenzied behavior.

These compounds block the neurotransmitter acetylcholine from interacting with its receptors in the brain.

Perkins points out that antipsychotics block dopamine receptors in the brain, which can also have the effect of depressing estrogen and testosterone levels.

Last year, another group found that knocking out GDF15's receptor in the brain made mice resistant to chemotherapy - induced nausea.

The research provides the first link between oxytocin — dubbed the «love hormone» — and anandamide, which has been called the «bliss molecule» for its role in activating cannabinoid receptors in brain cells to heighten motivation and happiness.

Δ9 - THC binds to two types of proteins in the human body: the cannabinoid CB1 receptor in the brain and the cannabinoid CB2 receptor in the immune system.

Activating the CB1 receptor in the brain makes you high, while activating the CB2 receptor has an anti-inflammatory effect.

In a 2011 paper in The Journal of Sexual Medicine that reviews previous studies of its mechanisms, they explain it in this way: Serotonin, which is thought to impede sexual interest, has two types of receptors in the brain.

Anesthetics activate memory - loss receptors in the brain, ensuring that patients don't remember traumatic events during surgery.

Now, researchers who've studied how perceptions of meaning change when people take the psychedelic drug known as LSD have traced that sense of meaningfulness to particular neurochemicals and receptors in the brain.

Many of those efforts have focused on drugs that target cellular receptors in the brain called NMDA receptors.

Memantine acts on the same receptors in the brain as fast - acting ketamine, said Dr. Lisa Monteggia, Professor of Neuroscience.

«The novelty of this study is two-fold: We used a preclinical prevention paradigm of a CRF - antagonist (a drug that blocks the CRF receptor in brain cells) called R121919 in a well - established AD model — and we did so in a way that draws upon our experience in human trials.

To some extent, all of these medications, which are approved by the FDA, all target the nicotinic receptor in the brain, and this might not be the optimal strategy for women.

Given via injection or nasal spray, naloxone binds powerfully with opiate receptors in the brain, repelling the drugs the user has taken and sending him or her into an instant and painful withdrawal.

Researchers with Oregon Health & Science University's Vollum Institute have given science a new and unprecedented 3 - D view of one of the most important receptors in the brain — a receptor that allows us to learn and remember, and whose dysfunction is involved in a wide range of neurological diseases and conditions, including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, schizophrenia and depression.

Derived from the opium poppy, opioids alleviate pain by binding to opioid receptors in the brain.

Recent studies on a hormone receptor in the brain called CRF2 brought new hope for a solution to obesity.

«The NMDA receptor is one of the most essential, and still sometimes mysterious, receptors in our brain.

Two synthetic cannabinoids — compounds that act on specific receptors in the brain — have been approved for medical use in the U.S., both of which mimic a form of THC (tetrahydrocannabinol), the compound responsible for the «high» of recreational cannabis use.

However, Belviq seems to activate only the serotonin 2C receptor in the brain, not the serotonin 2B receptor that is present in heart muscle.

According to Steven Ley of Imperial College, London, this insensitivity to naloxone suggests that there are hitherto unsuspected receptors in the brain.

When a drug like morphine binds to one of these receptors in the brain stem, breathing and heart rate slow down.