Sleep Disruption Emerges as a Hidden Signature of Temporal Lobe Dementia
A UCL and University of Surrey collaboration has systematically characterised sleep disturbance in the temporal lobe variants of frontotemporal dementia, ...
Tag: hypothalamus
Anxious Minds, Broken Shoulders: Brain Circuit Revealed Linking Anxiety to Failed Tendon Healing
A new study reveals a hypothalamic oxytocinergic–sympathetic brain circuit that mechanistically couples anxiety to impaired tendon–bone healing after rotator cuff ...
Orexin-A Trajectories in Newborn Brain Injury Reveal Cooling’s Hidden Signature
A prospective study of 41 newborns with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy found that serum orexin-A followed divergent early trajectories depending on therapeutic ...
How the Brain’s Water-Saving Hormone Keeps Its Supply Line Running Under Pressure
A new computational model shows that vasopressin neurons use activity-dependent mRNA upregulation as a long-term memory to balance hormone synthesis ...
Head Trauma May Rewire How the Brain Reacts to Later Stress, Study Finds
An international team led by the University of Malaga has shown in animal models that a prior traumatic brain injury ...
Genetic Map of Childhood Obesity Reveals Variants That Act Only in Early Life
A landmark genome-wide study of nearly 600,000 individuals identifies 624 genetic signals for childhood adiposity, many of which act only ...
Brain Cells Have a Fat Sensor That Keeps Their Recycling Plants Running
New research reveals that the nutrient sensor CPT1C protects hypothalamic neurons by restraining the BMP-hydrolyzing enzyme ABHD6, preserving the endolysosomal ...
Light Talks Directly to the Hypothalamus, Rewriting the Rules of the Body Clock
New research in mice shows that light reaches hypothalamic circuits through parallel retinal and circadian signalling channels, challenging the idea ...
Years After Brain Tumor Treatment, a Young Woman’s Body Lost Its Ability to Stay Warm
A case report describes recurrent severe hypothermia emerging eight years after successful chemoradiotherapy for a suprasellar germinoma, highlighting delayed hypothalamic ...
Hidden hypothalamic hub discovered as the brain’s cold-driven metabolic control center
USF Health researchers have identified the dorsal posterior periventricular hypothalamic nucleus as a cold-sensing brain region that coordinates appetite, heat ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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