Researchers measured acetylcholine production in participants' brains at the beginning and end of the 10-week trial.

A new study shows that cognitive training can increase the levels of a key chemical messenger in the brain responsible for decision-making.

Playing certain brain-training games may boost production of a neurotransmitter responsible for attention and focus, ...

A brain exercise a day might keep you current—it might even revive your brain chemistry. In a landmark clinical trial led by ...

The McGill study found 10 weeks’ use of the game-like app BrainHQ by older adults (for 30 minutes a day) significantly upregulated the chemical system in the brain which produces acetylcholine (the ...

An international research team has mapped the millisecond-by-millisecond process by which nerve signals activate muscles, uncovering a previously unseen “primed” intermediate step.

Acetylcholine regulates blood flow, but the source of blood acetylcholine has been unclear. Now, researchers at Karolinska Institutet have discovered that certain T cells in human blood can produce ...

Figure 1: Endocrine cells in human pancreatic islets express cholinergic markers. Figure 2: Human alpha cells express vAChT and ChAT. Figure 3: Isolated human islets secrete acetylcholine (ACh) in ...