The findings suggest that the lateral habenula works together with parts of the hypothalamus to influence decisions based on individual risk preference. Understanding how the brain makes decisions ...

The researchers also uncovered that the median raphe receives information about whether an experience is positive or negative from two further brain regions, the lateral hypothalamus and the ...

LHA = Lateral hypothalamic area; MCH = Melanin-concentrating hormone; NPY = Neuropeptide Y; OXM = Oxyntomodulin; POMC = Pro-opiomelanocortin; PYY = Peptide YY; PVN = Paraventricular nucleus ...

These project from the arcuate nucleus to other key hypothalamic nuclei, such as the paraventricular, dorsomedial, ventromedial and lateral hypothalamic nuclei. There are also projections to and ...