Acute systemic inflammation has long been suspected to trigger harmful processes within the brain, contributing to ...

If you have hypothalamic obesity, you have an increase in appetite and food intake (hyperphagia). This can happen if the parts of your brain that control hunger and fullness are damaged or not working ...

The hypothalamus is a small region of the human brain typically associated with regulating body temperature, hunger, thirst, fatigue, and sleep. But it also has another important role: helping the ...

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 body in ...

Hypothalamic obesity is a complex condition. Dietary changes won’t likely result in lasting weight loss, but there are other benefits for long-term health. The hypothalamus is a small but important ...

Breast cancer can rapidly derail the brain’s day-night regulation of stress hormones, even before tumors are detectable.

A new study by Scripps Research reveals that alcohol dependence disrupts two signaling pathways in a stress-related part of ...

In a recent study published in the journal Cell, researchers utilized a genetically encoded mirror-TRAP strategy to investigate the functional importance of aggression-mirroring neurons. Social ...