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In the 1960s, nuerochemist Choh Hao Li at the University of California in San Francisco was investigating the pituitary gland for substances that aided in the metabolism of fat. It was hard to get ...

SAN FRANCISCO – There's no doubt that laughter feels good, but is there real neurophysiology behind it and what can you do about it? In a paper being presented in an American Physiological Society ...

Endorphins became a household word in the late 1970s when Candace Pert and colleagues (Snyder & Simantov, 1977) at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine made front-page news by identifying ...

Endorphins became a household word in the late 1970s when Candace Pert and colleagues (Snyder & Simantov, 1977) at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine made front-page news by identifying ...

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Who hasn't been there? The big meal is over, you're full, but the craving for sweets remains. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research have now discovered that what we call ...