The prevalence of obesity is steadily rising and has huge health and financial implications for society. Weight gain is due to an imbalance between dietary intake and energy expenditure and research ...

ONE of the most important advances in technical procedures for determining the course and distribution of fibre tracts in the central nervous system is the method based on the recognition of terminal ...

The hypothalamus is a multinucleated structure and internuclear connections have been extensively investigated. However, the microcircuits inmost hypothalamic nuclei have been less examined. To fill ...

Exposure to higher levels of light can help people feel more awake and increase cognitive performance, probably by influencing the activity of parts of a brain region called the hypothalamus, ...

The hypothalamus is a small area in the center of the brain. It helps produce hormones that regulate heart rate, body temperature, hunger, and the sleep-wake cycle. When the hypothalamus is not ...

What if your brain couldn’t register the meals you ate or, despite restricting food intake, you continued to gain weight? For people with hypothalamic obesity (HO), there are no approved treatment ...

Expert Rev Endocrinol Metab. 2008;3(5):577-592. Disclosure: The authors have no relevant affiliations or financial involvement with any organization or entity with a financial interest in or financial ...