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.

A new map of a brain network that sustains wakefulness in humans could help improve our understanding of consciousness.

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Brain imaging studies of women — conducted before and after menopause — reveal physical changes in structure, connectivity ...

After experiencing female athlete triad herself, medical student Hanna Blankemeier is working to raise awareness.

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The regions they mapped were all tightly centered around the center or base of the brain, close to where it connects to the ...

Researchers from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have identified a causal genetic variant strongly associated with ...

Nagoya University researchers and their colleagues in Japan have found that middle-age obesity is caused by age-related changes in the shape of neurons in the hypothalamus, a region of the brain ...

Changes in personality following a heart transplant have been noted pretty much ever since transplants began. In one case, a ...

THC latches on to the cannabinoid receptors in our brain, mimicking the chemicals. Horvath and his team discovered that THC flipped a switch in the mouse’s hypothalamus, with a cluster of neurons, ...