Earlier studies done mostly on mice discovered that the brain had a system that flushed its tissues with cerebrospinal fluid, which carried away waste products in a process called glymphatic clearance ...

Study senior author professor Maiken Nedergaard of the University of Rochester and the University of Copenhagen said norepinephrine (a neurotransmitter and hormone) triggers blood vessels to ...

Every minute or so during non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep, the brain releases a wave of norepinephrine, a hormone that is one of the brain’s primary neurotransmitters. Norepinephrine is a ...

A new study in mice suggests that sleeping pills may impede the brain's ability to "cleanse" itself during sleep.

The new study reveals that, during a mouse’s non-rapid eye movement (non-REM) sleep, the brainstem releases waves of norepinephrine (a known hormone similar to adrenaline) about every 50 seconds ...

Related: Is It Love, or Love Bombing? Brain chemicals like the “love hormone” oxytocin, vasopressin, norepinephrine, and opioids are stimulated when you’re in love. Norepinephrine ...

New research appearing in the journal Cell describes for the first time the tightly synchronized oscillations in the neurotransmitter norepinephrine, cerebral blood, and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF ...

The main theory about how stress affects our immune system is through the hormone cortisol ... like serotonin and norepinephrine. : Also, as you get good and going, your body releases endorphins ...

Most immune cells express the receptors for epinephrine, norepinephrine, and GCs, all of which are stress hormones that can increase heart rate and blood pressure levels. Previous studies have ...

The effect of laughter on the so called 'stress hormones' of epinephrine, norepinephrine and cortisol is equivocal, with the few studies conducted thus far demonstrating some conflicting results.