Increasing the levels of chemicals naturally produced in the body called endocannabinoids may thwart the highly addictive ...

RESEARCHERS have uncovered a groundbreaking role for endocannabinoids in regulating food intake, energy use, and body weight. Their findings suggest that modulating these brain molecules could offer ...

A new study reveals that modulating endocannabinoids in the brain can reduce food intake and boost physical activity, ...

Researchers at CRCHUM found that targeting the enzyme ABHD6 in specific brain regions of mice reduces obesity without causing ...

Endocannabinoids bind to cannabinoid receptors throughout the body that regulate activities, such as learning and memory, emotions, sleep, immune response and appetite. Opioids prescribed to ...

As our understanding of the normal functions of the cannabinoid receptors and their ligands, the endocannabinoids, improves, we are starting to see why this might be so. A study by Chevaleyre and ...

Endocannabinoids in the brain play a key role in food intake and energy use. Modulating the action of these molecules could ...

Endocannabinoids in the brain play a key role in food intake and energy use. Modulating the action of these molecules could help fight obesity, say researchers.

Boosting the endocannabinoid 2-AG in the brain can counteract opioid addiction while preserving their pain relief, a Weill ...

Globally renowned South African cannabis scientist and clinician Dr. Shiksha Gallow advocated for the legalization of medical ...

The endocannabinoids anandamide and 2-arachidonoylglycerol are produced 'on demand' and act via (novel) CBs. Next to endocannabinoids, many endocannabinoid-related lipid molecules are produced ...

It’s thought to be caused, at least in part, by the release of a group of feel-good chemicals called endocannabinoids – chemicals that have only recently been discovered. We make them ...