Sentences with phrase «ventromedial hypothalamus»

This is not just a rat trick: These experiments have been replicated in a wide variety of mammals, and humans who sustain damage to the ventromedial hypothalamus (usually from a tumor of the adjacent pituitary gland) will also increase their food intake and become obese.

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.

«This area of the brain, the ventromedial hypothalamus, is a primitive, ancient region.

The team used mice that had been genetically engineered so that neurons in a specific part of the brain involved in aggression and sexual behavior — the ventromedial hypothalamus (VMH)-- would glow green when activated.

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.

Earlier work showed that electrical stimulation of some of these sites provokes cats and rats to sudden bouts of rage and that the ventromedial hypothalamus (VMH) has some involvement in sexual behaviors.