In modern society, there has been a rising trend of depression and anxiety. This trend
heavily impacts the population's mental health and thus contributes significantly to morbidity …

Peptides mediate cancer progression favoring the mitogenesis, migration, and invasion of
tumor cells, promoting metastasis and anti-apoptotic mechanisms, and facilitating …

Chronic stress causes cognitive deficits, such as impairments in episodic-like hippocampus-
dependent memory. Stress regulates an opioid-related neuropeptide named …

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a leading cause of death and disability in the United States,
and survivors often experience mental and physical health consequences that reduce …

Endometriosis (EM), defined as the presence of endometrial-like tissue with surrounding
smooth muscle cells outside the uterus, is a disregarded gynecological disease reported to …

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) affects more than 2.5 million people in the US each year and is
the leading cause of death and disability in children and adults ages 1 to 44. Approximately …

With the emergence of positron emission tomography (PET) in the late 1970s, psychiatry
had access to a tool capable of non‐invasive assessment of human brain function. Early …

Activation of nociceptin opioid peptide receptors (NOP, aka opioid-like receptor-1, ORL-1) by
the ligand nociceptin/orphanin FQ, leads to G protein-dependent regulation of Cav2. 2 (N …

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a major cause of mortality and disability around the world, for
which no treatment has been found. Nociceptin/Orphanin FQ (N/OFQ) and the nociceptin …

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a major cause of mortality and disability around the world. To
date, no pharmacological agent has received FDA approval to treat or improve recovery of …