How to Use hypothalamus in a Sentence
hypothalamus
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Other drugs, Schroeder says, work by blocking certain receptors in your hypothalamus thought to aggravate hot flashes.
—Ashley Abramson, Allure, 1 Dec. 2023
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Some of us have to be the hypothalamus, the pituitary gland, the bile duct.
—Josh Max, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2021
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In the recent work, researchers have mapped the cell subtypes in the hypothalamus based on.
—Popular Science, 26 Oct. 2023
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The chaos starts in the brain, where the flood of new hormones alerts the hormone managers, the hypothalamus and pituitary gland, that the body has too much testosterone.
—William Neff, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2022
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Researchers have known since the 1950s that a pea-sized structure in the brain's hypothalamus controls thirst.
—Claudia Wallis, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2022
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This small part of the hypothalamus is rife with neurons that secrete a hormone called VIP.
—Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 7 Aug. 2012
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Sweat isn't triggered by heart rate or movement, but by receptors in the hypothalamus area of the brain.
—Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 7 Dec. 2016
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The glands are controlled by the hypothalamus, the part of the brain responsible for instinct and emotion.
—Doug Criss, CNN, 28 Mar. 2018
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But strep also caused a leak in the BBB near the amygdala, the seat of fear and anxiety, and the lateral hypothalamus, where our sense of hunger begins.
—Pamela Weintraub, Discover Magazine, 29 Mar. 2017
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The hypothalamus functions a bit like a dispatch center, and its job is to push communication out to the rest of the body.
—Megan Schmidt, Discover Magazine, 12 Aug. 2019
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Oxytocin is a hormone produced in the hypothalamus region at the base of the brain and secreted by the pituitary gland.
—Sarah Graham, refinery29.com, 22 Oct. 2021
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Bromage believes its source is the same part of the brain that’s already known to generate the circadian rhythm, the hypothalamus.
—Quanta Magazine, 13 Dec. 2016
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Though important, the hypothalamus is small and hard to assess just by looking at brain scan images.
—Leslie Nemo, Discover Magazine, 4 Dec. 2019
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Alcohol mashed a button in my hypothalamus that made my adrenals light up.
—Elissa Washuta, Harper's BAZAAR, 14 July 2021
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Deer mice make three times more vasopressin in the hypothalamus than oldfield mice, Dr. Bendesky and his colleagues found.
—Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2017
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When your body is experiencing a hot flash, the hypothalamus misfires and the body heats up abruptly.
—Alexis Benveniste, Allure, 26 Sep. 2023
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When a stressor occurs, the amygdala region perceives the threat and sends a distress signal to the hypothalamus, which acts like a command center.
—Bridget Alex, Discover Magazine, 21 June 2019
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Then, the hypothalamus sends signals, notifying the blood vessels in the skin.
—Eva Botkin-Kowacki, Popular Science, 28 June 2023
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These groups of neurons reside in a part of the brain called the hypothalamus, and another region called the brain stem, areas that were already known to regulate sleep, mood and appetite.
—Gretchen Cuda Kroen, cleveland, 6 Nov. 2022
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Higher levels of stress are found in the hypothalamus; lower stress are found in the dorsal lateral frontal cortex.
—Fox News, 29 May 2020
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Oxytocin is a hormone produced in the hypothalamus and released by the pituitary gland.
—Daniel Dorsa, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Nov. 2020
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Our sleep schedule is controlled by the hypothalamus in the brain, which is sensitive to light and regulates the body’s internal schedule.
—Nick Blackmer, Verywell Health, 20 Apr. 2023
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Circadian rhythms are the 24-hour rhythms in your body that are driven by the master clock in your hypothalamus, which is in lockstep with your everyday light and dark cycle.
—Joan Salge Blake, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Apr. 2018
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The PET scan showed the treatment group had decreased accumulation of tau and amyloid proteins in the amygdala and hypothalamus when compared to the placebo group.
—Sheah Rarback, miamiherald, 19 Feb. 2018
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Daily circadian rhythm is controlled by a collection of neurons in an area of the brain called the hypothalamus.
—Mark Lieber, CNN, 15 May 2018
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The hypothalamus, though, is just one stop in a circuit that channels the internal signals that switch on these social behaviors.
—Emily Willingham, Scientific American, 3 Aug. 2020
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Because sufferers have normal sweat glands, the theory is that the hypothalamus, a part of the brain that, among other things, tells your glands to produce sweat, is sending these glands a glitchy message.
—Stephanie Dolgoff, Good Housekeeping, 19 Feb. 2020
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Situated in the hypothalamus near the crossing of the optic nerves, the SCN takes most of its cues from visual stimuli, especially light.
—Mark Ellwood, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2017
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There's also a third form of the disorder, known as secondary narcolepsy, which occurs due to an injury to the brain's hypothalamus region.
—Sarah Fielding, Health.com, 3 Dec. 2021
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This biological clock is located in an area of the brain called the hypothalamus.
—Horacio De La Iglesia, The Conversation, 16 Sep. 2022
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