Compared to sugar, consuming sucralose-a widely used sugar substitute-increases activity in the hypothalamus, a brain region that regulates appetite and body weight, according to a new USC study.

That is about to all change as a result of the first “map” of the human hypothalamus that has been published by researchers at Cambridge University. The combination of targeting these two ...

The hypothalamus is a central region of the brain that controls vital functions such as sleep, body temperature, hunger and thirst. Because the human brain is difficult to study, much knowledge about ...

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However, applying DBS to the lateral hypothalamus to treat partial paralysis is a novel approach. By focusing on the LH, the researchers at . Neurorestore tapped into an unexpected neural pathway ...

Issues with the hypothalamus and pituitary glands, as well as genetic conditions like Klinefelter syndrome, play significant roles in male fertility decline. The hypothalamus and pituitary glands ...

The hypothalamus (pronounced hai-puh-tha-luh-muhs) is a gland in your brain that controls your hormone (endocrine) system. It's sort of like your body's thermostat; it receives signals from other ...

Now, the cellular complexity of the human hypothalamus has been documented by Columbia researchers Drs. Hannah Glover and Claudia A. Doege in collaboration with Drs. Brian Herb and Seth Ament from ...

The journal Science has published a series of review articles regarding the outsized role that the hypothalamus plays in human behavior—regulating hunger pangs, sleep cycles and social ...

These cues did not come out of thin air—they are the work of an almond-sized region in the brain called the hypothalamus. This area of the brain, despite its tiny size, has an enormous job in ...

While small, the hypothalamus – a complex structure located deep in the brain – plays a gargantuan role in coordinating the wide array of neuronal signals that are responsible for keeping the ...