Habibeh Khoshbouei

Habibeh Khoshbouei, PhD, PharmD, professor in the department of neuroscience, authored an article in The Conversation that looks at the  controversary surrounding the ADHD drug, Adderall. Adderall has been under renewed public scrutiny since fall 2022 when the nation experienced a shortage of the drug. Prescription holders of Adderall…

By Michelle Koidin Jaffee University of Florida neuroscientists have identified an underlying mechanism for how overexposure to manganese, a hard metal often used to produce steel, could induce dysfunction of dopamine neurons. The preclinical mouse-model study, published in the Journal of Neuroscience, describes how impairment of dopamine transmission caused by…

UF Neuroscientists have discovered the mechanics of how dopamine transports into and out of brain cells.