{"id":148121,"date":"2022-10-13T19:29:10","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T00:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/new-insights-into-how-serotonin-regulates-behavior"},"modified":"2022-10-13T19:29:10","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T00:29:10","slug":"new-insights-into-how-serotonin-regulates-behavior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/new-insights-into-how-serotonin-regulates-behavior","title":{"rendered":"New insights into how serotonin regulates behavior"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-insights-into-how-serotonin-regulates-behavior2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rates of anxiety and depression have been increasing around the world for decades, a trend that has been sharply exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. New research led by the Boyce Thompson Institute\u2019s Frank Schroeder could ultimately lead to new therapeutics to help relieve this global mental health burden.<\/p>\n<p>First discovered in the 1930s, <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/serotonin\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">serotonin<\/a> is a neurotransmitter produced in many animals that mediates myriad behaviors, such as feeding, sleep, mood and cognition. Drugs that alter <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/serotonin+levels\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">serotonin levels<\/a> are the main weapon to treat psychological conditions like anxiety and depression, as well as eating disorders.<\/p>\n<p>As a simple model for neurobiology research, the microscopic roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans has been used extensively to study serotonin\u2019s role in regulating <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/behavior\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">behavior<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/food+intake\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">food intake<\/a>. For many years, researchers thought that serotonin was made in C. elegans by one specific molecular pathway, and that serotonin was then quickly degraded. Schroeder\u2019s team and colleagues at Columbia University now demonstrated that both of those assumptions were not quite correct.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rates of anxiety and depression have been increasing around the world for decades, a trend that has been sharply exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. New research led by the Boyce Thompson Institute\u2019s Frank Schroeder could ultimately lead to new therapeutics to help relieve this global mental health burden. First discovered in the 1930s, serotonin is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}