Thirst and hunger originate from
the same Hypothalamus nuclei in our brain — the Lateral Hypothalamic Area.
Not exact matches
I read an article once that said when a human gets stressed, her
hypothalamus sends a message to her adrenal glands and triggers the
same response her very distant ancestors would have experienced upon getting chased by a tiger.
The research shows that the portion of the brain that helps regulate sexuality — the
hypothalamus — reacted the exact
same way in straight women and gay men when exposed to male pheromones, which are chemicals designed to provoke a behavior, such as sexual arousal.
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.
Using a «reporter gene,» Baum proved that a receptor in the anterior
hypothalamus responds differently to the
same odor depending on the sex of the ferret.
The researchers, including Stanford's Schnitzer, used the
same microscopic technique as Dulac's team but implanted the lens in the ventromedial
hypothalamus, an evolutionarily ancient structure involved in social behavior.
Support for this scenario was unexpectedly found in humans, where expression of Crhbp and Pmch are extremely closely linked in the
hypothalamus, indicating they may actually be present in the
same cells and together act downstream of Lef1 to regulate behavior.
Organic MSG is still MSG and will produce the
same damaging effects to the neurons in your
hypothalamus.