How to Use hypothalamus in a Sentence

hypothalamus

noun

• Some of us have to be the hypothalamus, the pituitary gland, the bile duct.
  — Josh Max, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2021
• 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
• 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
• This small part of the hypothalamus is rife with neurons that secrete a hormone called VIP.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 7 Aug. 2012
• 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
• The glands are controlled by the hypothalamus, the part of the brain responsible for instinct and emotion.
  — Doug Criss, CNN, 28 Mar. 2018
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Though important, the hypothalamus is small and hard to assess just by looking at brain scan images.
  — Leslie Nemo, Discover Magazine, 4 Dec. 2019
• Alcohol mashed a button in my hypothalamus that made my adrenals light up.
  — Elissa Washuta, Harper's BAZAAR, 14 July 2021
• 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
• When your body is experiencing a hot flash, the hypothalamus misfires and the body heats up abruptly.
  — Alexis Benveniste, Allure, 26 Sep. 2023
• 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
• Then, the hypothalamus sends signals, notifying the blood vessels in the skin.
  — Eva Botkin-Kowacki, Popular Science, 28 June 2023
• 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
• Higher levels of stress are found in the hypothalamus; lower stress are found in the dorsal lateral frontal cortex.
  — Fox News, 29 May 2020
• Oxytocin is a hormone produced in the hypothalamus and released by the pituitary gland.
  — Daniel Dorsa, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Nov. 2020
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• This biological clock is located in an area of the brain called the hypothalamus.
  — Horacio De La Iglesia, The Conversation, 16 Sep. 2022
• This is clearly reset (at the level of the hypothalamus, deep in the brain) during the infection, but many people do complain of feeling cold afterward.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 1 Feb. 2023
• Lin focused on a primitive part of the brain called the hypothalamus that keeps our basic bodily functions ticking over.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 10 Feb. 2011

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024