A Harvard team studying mice found that the brain processes isolation and loneliness like hunger and thirst, highlighting the ...

A high-resolution spatial map of the human hypothalamus makes it possible to identify specific cells, determine their exact location and analyze their neighboring cells. The cell atlas ...

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The hypothalamus consists of several nuclei that integrate peripheral signals, such as adiposity and caloric intake, to regulate important pathways within the CNS controlling food intake.

Did you know the brain plays a crucial role in impacting male fertility? The hypothalamus and pituitary gland, two small but crucial parts of the brain, control key hormones that regulate sperm ...

Overall, the findings gathered by the researchers suggest that the risk preference of mice during reward-based decision-making tasks is supported by functionally different hypothalamus–habenula ...

In mice, the neurons that dictate the feeling of being full are also the ones that cause sugar cravings, potentially explaining why people are still able to eat sweets after a filling meal ...

The hypothalamus in the brain contains the temperature monitoring centre for the body. The hypothalamus receives nerve impulses from structures in the skin called thermoreceptors, which give ...

Scientists discovered years ago that the hypothalamus -- which helps to manage body temperature, hunger, sex drive, sleep and more -- includes neurons that express the protein opsin 3 (OPN3).

High-fat diet (HFD)-induced obesity is characterized by induction of inflammation in the hypothalamus; however, the temporal regulation of proinflammatory markers and their impact on hypothalamic ...

The study, which was tested on mice, revealed that neurons in the arcuate nucleus of the hypothalamus, which controls appetite and metabolism, release natural opioids that drive our cravings for ...

A recent study by researchers at Brown and other institutions found that suppressing the protein opsin 3 in mice can reduce ...