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

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 ...

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

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

The hypothalamus is the main area in the brain ... PVN = Paraventricular nucleus; VMN = Ventromedial nucleus.

How do neural circuits evolve to encode new social behaviors? Here we show that in Drosophila santomea, females signal their sexual receptivity by spreading wings in response to male songs, and ...