Navigating uncertain situations is a fundamental part of life for all animals. When faced with a choice between a predictable ...

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 ...

Researchers at Brown University and Cincinnati Children’s found that suppressing opsin 3 in the brain of mice makes them eat ...

Estrogens are best known as hormones that regulate sexual development in women, although men produce them as well. Now, a new ...

See, researchers have discovered that the annoying cravings we often get for sweets—even when we’re full already—are a response of our body’s neurological systems. In fact, the same neurons in our ...

In mice, the neurons that dictate the feeling of being full are also the ones that cause sugar cravings, potentially ...

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 ...

That is about to all change as a result of the first “map” of the human hypothalamus that has been published by researchers at Cambridge University. The combination of targeting these two ...

Known as the circadian rhythm. For humans, it’s located in the part of our brains called the hypothalamus. And while it’s most famous for controlling our sleep cycles…it’s also responsible ...

You have full access to this article via your institution. By analogy, one could argue that CLK2 may be expressed in the hypothalamus and may have a role controlling energy homeostasis through ...