Ripples of nerve cell activity that lock in memories may have an unexpected job outside of the brain: Dropping blood sugar levels in the body. Just after a burst of ripples in a rat’s hippocampus, ...

PULLMAN, Wash. — It isn’t just people – when given the chance, rats may also use cannabis to cope with stress, according to a study by researchers at Washington State University. Published in the ...

A compound found in cannabis may help protect the brain from early memory and social problems linked to Alzheimer’s disease.

A study published in Neuropsychopharmacology focused on cannabis-seeking behavior and found that rats with higher natural stress levels are much more likely to self-administer cannabis. The Washington ...

Little is known about the effect of physical activity in early life on subsequent growth and regulation of inflammation. We previously reported that exposure of muscles in growing rats to IL-6 results ...