Sentences with phrase «hypothalamus region»

And, according to a University of Virginia study, holding hands can reduce the stress - related activity in the hypothalamus region of the brain, part of our emotional center.

The hypothalamus region of the brain, responsible for triggering this response, sends messages to the adrenal glands telling them to release cortisol and adrenaline.

In 1994, Jeffrey Friedman, Marilyn M. Simpson Professor and head of Rockefeller's Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, launched a new era in obesity research by discovering a hormone called leptin, which acts on neurons in the brain's hypothalamus region to suppress hunger.

The hormone sends signals to the hypothalamus region of the brain to suppress the appetite.

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Some of the regions that process emotion are already present in infants» brains at birth — the amygdala, hypothalamus, insula, cingulate cortex, and orbitofrontal cortex.

Adult neural stem cells in the hypothalamus — a brain region that regulates hunger, sleep, body temperature and other activities — appear to orchestrate the body's aging process, they found.

The main cog in the human biological clock is the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN), a group of nerve cells in a region at the base of the brain called the hypothalamus.

The hypothalamus, shown in red, is a region in the brain that regulates hunger, sleep, body temperature and other activities.

At least one study suggests that in cluster headache sufferers this hypothalamus - adjoining region may differ not only in its electrical activity but also in its interactions with other parts of the brain.

In the late 1990s Goadsby and his colleagues linked cluster headaches to heightened synaptic activity falling in or near the hypothalamus, a brain region that mediates hunger, thirst, sleep, sex drive and more.

Our homeostatic system regulates our need for food and is controlled mainly in the hypothalamus (in the lower region of the brain).

The nerve cells involved in this integration process and control of hormonal signals reside in an area of the insect brain known as the mid-Ventral Ganglion (mVG), which in turn communicates with a region of the central brain that is akin to the mammalian hypothalamus.

«The effect of sleep deprivation on pain sensitivity in operated and intact rats was virtually eliminated by pharmacologically blocking the action of adenosine in a brain region in the anterior hypothalamus known to regulate sleep, which is connected to major pain - related areas,» Vanini says.

Eggen and his collaborators investigated the impact of high - and low - fat diets on inflammation and microglial markers in a specific brain region — the hypothalamus — of 6 - month - old mice.

Brains of fish missing the gene were relatively normal except there were cells missing from a region called the hypothalamus.

But to the researchers» surprise, they found that some of the acetate travelled all the way to the brain, where it settled in the hypothalamus — a region that helps control hunger.

To develop a comprehensive view of astrocyte gene expression, the duo used the technique in four very different areas of the mouse brain: two regions of the cortex and the hypothalamus and cerebellum.

Now that the location and identity of the wake - promoting neurons are precisely defined, the supramammillary region joins other parts of the brain known as being involved in keeping people awake, such as the nearby lateral hypothalamus, the upper brain stem and basal forebrain.

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.

Scientists have concocted tiny versions of several brain regions ranging from the hypothalamus, which regulates body temperature, thirst and hunger, to the movement - controlling basal ganglia.

The researchers also found that activation of ESP1 - responding neurons in the region of the brain called the hypothalamus enhanced sexual behavior in female mice, even in the absence of actual ESP1, by using various tools to chemically or optically control neural activities, combined with a process called the TRAP method, which allows them to selectively manipulate neurons responding to a particular stimulus.

Their fierce hunger is driven by a malfunctioning hypothalamus, a region deep in the brain that governs hunger and growth.

She did so by activating neurons in a specific region of the hypothalamus, deep in the center of the brain.

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.

In vertebrates, a master clock is located in the awesome - sounding suprachiasmatic nucleus, a tiny region of brain cells in the hypothalamus.

We specifically focused on the hypothalamus because it is the brain region critical for regulation of homeostatic processes such as feeding,» said lead author Sebastien Bouret, PhD, a member of The Saban Research Institute's Developmental Neuroscience Program and an associate professor of Pediatrics at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC).

Dr Siddharth Banka, Clinical Senior Lecturer at the Manchester Centre for Genomic Medicine, who led the study, explained: «Our team has identified that this new syndrome is caused by a small deletion on chromosome 6 that affects the function of hypothalamus, a region of the brain that plays a number of important roles in the body.»

In previous studies, Knight and other researchers have found distinct populations of neurons within a region of the brain called the hypothalamus that can trigger thirst and signal when an animal should start and stop drinking.

Interestingly, this brain region contains the hypothalamus, which was identified in 1991 as differing in size between gay and straight men.

The GABAergic neurons project from the ventral part of the medulla, which sits at the top of the spinal cord, into many regions of the brainstem and hypothalamus, and thus are able to affect many bodily functions.

And in January 2009 another Nature Genetics paper found an association between high body mass index and a 45,000 base - pair deletion in a gene called NEGR1, which affects neuronal growth in the hypothalamus, a brain region that regulates hunger and metabolism.

The locus coeruleus is highly connected with brain regions that mediate emotion and memory, such as the amygdala and hypothalamus.

In mammals, the hypothalamus is a region of the brain located below the thalamus, forming the major portion of the ventral region of the diencephalon and functioning to regulate certain metabolic processes and other autonomic activities.

The premature surge of leptin may be altering the development of the hypothalamus, a region of the brain that helps to regulate appetite and metabolism, say the researchers, who report their findings today in Cell Metabolism.

Specifically, two brain regions called the hippocampus and the hypothalamus have been proposed to specifically contribute to depression.

Therefore, the mechanism proposed behind decreased female central insulin sensitivity is a modulation caused by brain estrogen signaling, potentially mediated by estrogen effects on ERα in various regions of the hypothalamus.

The medial septal area projects to a large number of brain regions that show theta modulation, including all parts of the hippocampus as well as the entorhinal cortex, perirhinal cortex, retrosplenial cortex, medial mamillary and supramamillary nuclei of the hypothalamus, anterior nuclei of the thalamus, amygdala, inferior colliculus, and several brainstem nuclei (Buzsáki, 2002).

hypothalamus A region of the brain that controls bodily functions by releasing hormones.

His most recent study used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) on 13 healthy French volunteers to illuminate how cortisol varies during mental and physical tasks, and how cortisol acts on specific brain regions such as the hypothalamus (J Neurol Neurosci, 7:92, 2016).

The region of hypothalamus is the brain's posterior section and is the center of regulation for visceral (intuitive) functions like body temperature, sleep cycles, and pituitary gland's activity.

The hormone plays a role in the hypothalamus, the part of the brain that controls appetite, and also may act on regions of the brain that control reward processing.

These changes can slow some functions in the hypothalamus, the region of the brain responsible for hormone release.

From there, Hypocretin Neurons project to all regions of the brain, including the hypothalamus, cerebral cortex, brain stem, and spinal cord.

Your metabolism shifts in springtime and is managed by the hypothalamus, which is the brain region that chooses where energy should go and how much.

Partial seizures, which occur in the region of the brain that controls aggression (hypothalamus or limbic system), can result in sudden unprovoked aggression in your pet.