The hypothalamus releases various hormones into the bloodstream that ultimately reach the anterior pituitary gland. For example, the release of thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH) by the ...

Period loss, or amenorrhea, affects approximately 3% to 4% of women of reproductive age. It can be the body’s response to an ...

Summer is the UK's best-loved season. It's easy to see why, with the warmer, sunnier weather it brings. But the temperature ...

Your hypothalamus, a tiny control tower in your brain, decides to send out the order: Send in the stress hormones! These stress hormones are the same ones that trigger your body’s “fight or ...

Over a short period in the late 1990s, three groups converged on the discovery of a neuropeptide system, centred in the dorsolateral hypothalamus, that regulates arousal states, influences feeding ...

Our long-term research goal is to decipher the gene regulatory network that directs the embryonic development of various types of neurons in the arcuate nucleus of the hypothalamus (ARC, aka ARH).

While there are many complex reasons why the weather has such an affect on our mood and wellbeing, the key answer lies in our ...