A comprehensive atlas of the human hypothalamus, a brain region that regulates many bodily functions, including temperature, sleep and appetite, has been built using single-cell RNA sequencing and ...

The hypocretins (orexins), Hcrt1 and Hcrt2, are expressed only in a few thousand neurons in the dorsolateral hypothalamus. These secreted peptides are found in both rat and human brain ...

The hypothalamus is the main area in the brain controlling appetite. The arcuate nucleus (ARC) in the hypothalamus and area postrema in the brainstem have direct access to circulating hormones ...

This makes it unlikely that the posterior hypothalamus activity directly mediates the positive impact of light on cognitive ...