In a 1972, college “jogging” class, I was required to run a mile for the first time in my life. There were no running shoes ...

Department of Health and Sport Science, University of Richmond, Virginia 23173. Previous research investigating the response of plasma beta-endorphins (beta-EP) to resistance exercise has resulted in ...

We all chase the elusive runner’s high. Some people describe it as “feeling strong” while other describe it as a sense of mental clarity. Suffice to say, it feels good. But most highs are addictive; ...

Scientists know that alcohol affects the brain, but the specifics are unclear. New findings show that low and moderate but not high doses of alcohol increase the release of beta-endorphin.

One of the brain’s natural painkillers -- beta endorphin -- increases significantly in response to alcohol, cocaine and amphetamine drug administration in a key region of the brain that controls ...

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 ...

Beta-endorphin is released during stress and activates receptors in ncl. tractus solitarius and induces bradycardia and respiratory depression. We measured BEI in CSF. in caudal area of ncl. tractus ...

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 ...

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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 ...