"Hypothalamus" is Greek for under (hypo) the thalamus (inner chamber). The thalamus takes in signals from your senses (except for your sense of smell) and sorts those signals to find what's important.

Anatomy of the Hypothalamus The hypothalamus, located in the ventral area of the brain between the pituitary gland and the third ventricle, is characterized as a bilateral group of nuclei that ...

With a finding that will "rewrite neuroanatomy textbooks," University of Iowa neurologist Aaron Boes, MD, PhD, and his colleagues show that the thalamus is not a critical part of the brain pathway ...

They used the patients’ MRI images to map the precise brain areas damaged by the stroke and assessed the level of consciousness for each patient within the first 12 hours of the stroke. There were ...

The hypothalamus is composed of several different areas and is located at the base of the brain. It is only the size of a pea (about 1/300 of the total brain weight), but is responsible for some very ...