The cerebrum, especially the cerebral cortex, has long been thought to be the important part of our brain. However, the ...

This could be due to technical challenges in accurately delineating the lateral boundaries of the hypothalamus, which are formed by diffuse white matter tracts, on MR images. This may have been ...

Limbic system and sexual behavior. Male sexual behavior is predominantly controlled by the medial preoptic area of the hypothalamus. Gonadal hormones facilitate the release of dopamine in the ...

Mice are prey animals, and while they must be able to move around looking for food, it is just as important that they can get ...

Hypothalamic microglia play an essential role in mediating changes to feeding circuitry caused by exposure to maternal HFD that may contribute to developmental programming of metabolic phenotype. ...

Rutgers scientists have uncovered a tug-of-war inside the brain between hunger and satiety, revealing two newly mapped neural ...

Research reveals how stress impacts sleep and memory. Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania studied the brain's ...

Scientists have discovered a specific group of brain cells that create memories of meals, encoding not just what food was ...

Activating stress-linked brain neurons caused memory loss and reduced sleep * Inhibiting paraventricular nucleus neurons improved sleep and memory in stressed //mice * A brain pathway linking the ...

Similar ischemic changes were also dismissed in the medial hypothalamus (3 rats) and the lateral hypothalamus (4 rats) in animals with AChA infarct. To evaluate the extent of ischemic changes in small ...