A new study uncovers how progesterone-responsive neurons in the anterior ventromedial hypothalamus (VMH) toggle between ...

Activating certain neurons during fertile phases set off rejection behavior, while silencing them in non-receptive females reduced rejection.

We wanted to understand how the brain switches between these two drastically different behavioural states". Central to their ...

Estradiol binding in the ventromedial hypothalamic area, where estradiol acts to induce sexual receptivity, peaks 1 to 2 hours after peripheral estradiol treatment in oophorectomized rats ...

The VMH has multiple connections with other hypothalamic nuclei and plays a pivotal role in modulating autonomic nervous system function, hormonal secretion, peripheral glucose/lipid metabolism ...