Research carried out on mice has revealed how a hormone released by the intestine acts on the brain and helps regulate the body's energy expenditure. FGF19 (fibroblast growth factor 19) activates ...

A new study published in Nature Neuroscience has identified a brain circuit in mice that overrides basic needs like hunger or ...

Rockefeller scientists identified a hormonally primed brain circuit in mice that governs sexual receptivity in females and ...

To test the theory, the team genetically eliminated Ppp1r17 in the hypothalamus of three-month-old mice—roughly the age of a teenager. Within two months, the critters blew up in size. They began ...

One route they are studying involves supplementing mice with eNAMPT, the enzyme produced by the fat tissue that returns to the brain and fuels the hypothalamus, among other tissues.

One route they are studying involves supplementing mice with eNAMPT, the enzyme produced by the fat tissue that returns to the brain and fuels the hypothalamus, among other tissues.

Researchers induced a hibernation-like state in mice by using ultrasound to stimulate the hypothalamus preoptic area in the brain, which helps to regulate body temperature and metabolism. The ...

The study is the first to find mirror neurons in mice and in the hypothalamus—an evolutionarily ancient part of the brain—hinting at a more primal origin for mirror neurons than previously ...

Shah’s team previously identified a cluster of neurons in a brain region called the ventrolateral part of the ventromedial hypothalamus (VMHvl) that triggered aggression in mice. Those findings have ...

It also made neurons in the hypothalamus more excitable, “so they responded to signals from outside much faster,” Oancea said. While the study focused specifically on the hypothalamus, Haddad said she ...