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The article reports that the emergence of electrochemical tools has enable scientists to elucidate the neurochemistry of cell involved in complex behaviors. Electrochemists have tried to examine how brain changes and adapts over a lifetime of learning and experience. Pioneers of electrochemical brain investigations have revealed the dopamine activity around single cells. These scientists have developed electrodes capable of simultaneously taking electrochemical and electrophysiological measurements.

Focuses on drug and biotechnology companies' development of drugs to help people shed pounds. Emphasis on a complex array of neurochemicals that helps regulate body weight; Discoveries in the neurosciences and in mouse genetics; Similarities of leptin and insulin. INSET: Newer drugs broaden approaches to fighting obesity..

Focuses on a symposium sponsored by the Division of Chemical Toxicology which took place during the American Chemical Society national meeting held in August 1998 in Boston, Massachusetts, to discuss issues in neurochemistry. Characteristics of neurodegenerative diseases; Comments from Lawrence M. Sayre, professor of chemistry at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland; Reference to an investigation on the role of nobelium in neurodegerative diseases.

The author discusses the uncertainties associated with changes and its impact on the development of new ideas and ways of thinking, focusing on the neurochemistry experienced by adults when faced with change. She explores the challenges of changing an individual's behavior from old intellectual territories to adopting new ideas, highlighting how fear of change occur through signs of resistance to new information in a professional setting.

Several D-amino acids have been found to be important in brain neurochemistry and changes in the levels of these amino acids coincide with development of different diseases. For example, the D-form of serine is involved in modulation of the NMDA receptor and has been implicated in a broad spectrum of disorders including schizophrenia, ischemia, and epilepsy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the capability of protons as neurotransmitters. Researchers at the University of Utah concluded that protons behave like neurotransmitters. They found that the contraction of intestinal muscles depends on proton transporters on the exterior of the intestine and proton receptors on the surface of muscles surrounding the intestine. These suggest that protons may be actively secreted to trigger proton-sensing receptors in adjacent cells.

The article focuses on a report published in "Nature," magazine in September 2007 describing the biological chemistry involved in the physiology of hearing. An overview of the research is given, citing the resultant theories on the "tip link" neuroprocessing of electrochemical signals in the hear. Additional information is given describing the medical benefits of understanding the proteins necessary for the actions.

Presents a research from the University of California, Irvine demonstrating the potential of immunotherapy to clear amyloid cascade in the early-stage tau pathology mice. Evidence showing the capability of pathological Aβ species to induce the progressive accumulation of tau in neurons; Use of animal models in studying the clearance of A&beta deposits in the secretion of the brain; Reliance of the clearance of tau on its state.