Scientists identified cellular metabolism and energy signaling as a central factor connecting genetic and environmental ...

The findings, published in the Nature journal Molecular Psychiatry, come from an analysis of 25 studies. The team compared neurometabolite levels, which are chemicals created during brain metabolism, ...

The relationship between nutrition, metabolism, and brain health is an expanding field crucial to understanding cognitive aging and disease prevention.

Brain cytochrome P450 (CYP) enzymes represent a specialised set of metabolic proteins that, while less abundant than their hepatic counterparts, play an increasingly acknowledged role in the local ...

The human brain has a sweet tooth, burning through nearly one-quarter of the body's sugar energy, or glucose, daily. Now, researchers at Gladstone Institutes and UC San Francisco (UCSF) have shed new ...

Researchers found that people with anxiety disorders consistently show lower choline levels in key brain regions that ...

A new open-source model of brain metabolism, developed by scientists at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), has shown how altering key chemicals could restore aged cells to their youthful ...

People who work the nightshift or odd hours and eat at irregular times are more prone to weight gain and diabetes, likely due to eating patterns not timed with natural daylight and when people ...

A new study shows that disrupted brain lipids play a central role in Alzheimer’s disease. Researchers found that microglia control key lipid changes linked to amyloid buildup, inflammation and neuron ...

In recent years, the opioid epidemic has surged to alarming proportions, casting a shadow over communities worldwide. This crisis, fueled by an increase in the prescription of opioid medications and ...

Jonathan Johnston has received funding from BBSRC, MRC, ESRC and Diabetes-UK. He has collaborated with Nestle and has undertaken consultancy work for Kellogg’s and International Flavors and Fragrances ...