A new study published in Nature Neuroscience has identified a brain circuit in mice that overrides basic needs like hunger or ...

The cerebrum, especially the cerebral cortex, has long been thought to be the important part of our brain. However, the cerbrum contains less than 20 percent of the neurons in our brain. Eighty ...

Your mental image of your brain probably looks something like what's pictured here. The cerebrum, shown here, is where all the really important stuff is supposed to happen in humans: consciousness ...

In animals, lateral hypothalamic lesions produce anorexia while VMN lesions produce hyperphagia. [29–33] In that context, more recent studies have demonstrated that appetite reflects the ...