A new study published in Nature offers the most detailed map to date of how individual cell types in the brain change with age. Scientists analyzed over 1.2 million brain cells from young and aged ...

Now, new research reveals how the human brain switches between these two modes of survival. The answer lies in the hypothalamus, a tiny structure nestled deep in the middle of the organ.

Scientists at Pennington Biomedical Research Center have gained greater clarity in the brain regions and neurons that control ...

Compared to sugar, consuming sucralose-a widely used sugar substitute-increases activity in the hypothalamus, a brain region that regulates appetite and body weight, according to a new USC study.

In what David Sinclair, who studies aging at Harvard Medical School and who was not involved in the work, calls a “Herculean effort,” the researchers “discovered that stem cells in the hypothalamus ..