The locus coeruleus is emerging as a major new area of research interest, with many important functions such as regulating our attention and sleep. Anyone with insomnia knows the impatience and ...

A new study has linked signs of heightened arousal and reactivity -- a core symptom of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) -- to overactivity of the locus coeruleus (LC), a brain region that mediates ...

The locus coeruleus is a region of the brain that is instrumental in coordinating our mental processing and is the primary source of noradrenaline in the brain, which acts to regulate arousal states ...

Andrew Luskin conducted research on the brain's peri-locus coeruleus neurons while he was a UW Medicine neuroscience Ph.D. student. A small cluster of cells deep within our brains, called the locus ...

Tau aggregation begins not in the cortex, but in the brainstem. Does tangle deposition in the locus coeruleus, which often starts in a person’s 30s, presage Alzheimer’s disease? In the September 22 ...

The locus coeruleus is a nucleus in the pons that plays important roles in homeostasis, arousal and sleep, memory and emotions. Neurons of the locus coeruleus project to numerous brain areas including ...

A small cluster of cells deep within our brains, called the locus coeruleus, affects how awake and attentive we are, how we respond to stress, how we cope with anxiety and fear, and how we create ...

Engaging the brain’s plasticity by stimulating the locus coeruleus, a region in the brainstem, could be a clinically relevant approach to optimize the efficacy of cochlear implants in restoring ...

The locus coeruleus is a norepinephrine-producing hub located in the pons (Latin for "bridge") region of the brainstem. Source: Diego69/Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 3.0 Accomplishing goals that require ...

Small and seemingly specialized, the brain's locus coeruleus (LC) region has been stereotyped for its outsized export of the arousal-stimulating neuromodulator norepinephrine. In a new paper and with ...

A critical but vulnerable region in the brain appears to be the first place affected by late onset Alzheimer's disease and may be more important for maintaining cognitive function in later life than ...