The ventrolateral preoptic nucleus (VLPO) in the brain plays a critical role in the initiation and maintenance of sleep, while the lateral posterior part of the hypothalamus contains neuronal ...

Scientists demonstrate in mice that that specific brain cells -- located in a region of the hypothalamus called the ventrolateral preoptic nucleus (VLPO) -- are in fact essential to normal sleep ...

New research in mice suggests that sugar excites neurons in a brain region, called the ventrolateral preoptic nucleus (VLPO) of the hypothalamus, that induces sleep. “What [the researchers] show is ...

The hypothalamus is a portion of the brain that contains a number of ... for example, consists of the preoptic, paraventricular ... Within the hypothalamus lies the suprachiasmatic nucleus ...

A new study suggests the dorsomedial hypothalamic nucleus as a possibility. Nature Neuroscience ... (the subparaventricular zone, medial preoptic area and raphe pallidus nucleus) ...

Scientists now have concrete evidence that two groups of cells—the ventrolateral preoptic nucleus in the hypothalamus and the parafacial zone in the brain stem—are involved in prompting SWS.

Most of the drugs we use for sleep now act by mimicking the GABA and turning off the targets of the ventrolateral preoptic nucleus. That's why they help you fall asleep.

They then described the outputs of the studied thalamic nucleus and found that the neurons of the nucleus project most to the anterior part of the hypothalamus, the so-called preoptic area.

Earlier work by the team showed that manipulating neurons projecting from the bed nucleus of the stria terminals (BNST) to the pre optic hypothalamus could switch on and off sexual recognition.

Anterior – Medial area includes nuclei like Medial preoptic nucleus, Supraoptic nucleus, Paraventricular ... Dorsomedial hypothalamic nucleus (DM) GI stimulation; Ventromedial nucleus (VM ...