Sentences with phrase «hypothalamus lit»

Ivanka Savic Berglund, a neuroscientist at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, put gay men, straight men, and women in a PET scanner (not all at the same time) and watched how their anterior hypothalamus lit up when presented with an odor similar to one found in men's sweat and one similar to a scent found in women's urine.

Not exact matches

Peering into the subjects» brains using functional magnetic resonance imaging, the researchers found that on average the regions of the brain that usually light up when an individual is aroused, the hypothalamus and fusiform gyrus, responded normally to moderately erotic images.

She used a virus to ferry light - sensitive channelrhodopsin - 2 proteins into neurons of the region called the ventrolateral subdivision of the ventromedial hypothalamus, or VMHvl.

A section of the hypothalamus called the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) lies at the center of the body's master clock and gets input directly from light sensors in the eyes, keeping the rest of the body on schedule.

Here the hypothalamus, pituitary and pineal glands are stimulated and regulated by light.

«The light runs through the hypothalamus through a set of neurons called the suprachiasmatic neurons (SCN); they are the clock that regulates your circadian rhythm.»

Light therapy works by stimulating cells in the retina that connect to the hypothalamus (a part of the brain that helps control circadian rhythms).

Little bits of light pass directly through your optic nerve to your hypothalamus, which controls your biological clock.

Following the discovery of the third receptor in the eye, experiments showed that a particular colour of light surpressed production of the «sleep hormone» melatonin by sending a message to the hypothalamus.