Your hypothalamus makes hormones that it sends to a part of your pituitary gland called the anterior (pronounced an-tee-ree-ur) pituitary. Anterior means at or near the front, so your anterior ...

The anterior region of the hypothalamus also helps regulate body temperature through sweat. It also maintains circadian rhythms, which are physical and behavioral changes that occur on a daily cycle.

Advanced high-field MRI reveals distinct microstructural changes in hypothalamic subregions of young women with anorexia ...

As explained below, this is a misnomer: the release of these stimulating hormones is governed by hormones released from the hypothalamus, which ultimately acts as the true primary orchestrator of ...

It is a small gland that stores the hormones the hypothalamus secretes, releasing them into the bloodstream as necessary. The pituitary gland has an anterior lobe, called the adenohypophysis ...

The anterior pituitary makes and releases its own hormones, while the posterior pituitary stores and releases hormones that are made in the hypothalamus. While the posterior pituitary doesn’t ...

They found that, during both tasks, higher levels of light triggered an increase in activity over the posterior hypothalamus. In contrast, the inferior and anterior hypothalamus followed a seemingly ...

Pheromones, sexual chemicals, trigger responses in lesbians which are different from those of heterosexual women, heterosexual men and homosexual men, according to a new study at the Stockholm ...