The team from the Department of Neurophysiology showed in rats how the so-called locus coeruleus and the ventral tegmental ...

The locus coeruleus is the brain’s major source of the neuromodulator norepinephrine, and is also profoundly vulnerable to the development of Alzheimer’s disease related tau pathology. Norepinephrine ...

R esearchers at the University of Lausanne have identified a novel role for the brain's 'locus coeruleus' in sleep and its disruptions. This brain region facilitates the transition between NREM ...

The carbon dioxide levels in your blood begin to rise and that kicks into life the locus coeruleus, a specific part of your brain which starts producing even more noradrenaline. As noradrenaline ...