The study presents compelling evidence that the melanocortin system originating in the arcuate nucleus of the hypothalamus plays a crucial role in puberty onset, representing a significant advance in ...

Hunger is an ancestral and evolutionary survival instinct; its importance is evident in the complex and redundant pathways involving all five senses that regulate it. 1,2 Historically, when humans ...

Alcohol also suppresses pro-opiomelanocortin (POMC) neurons, a type of cell in the hypothalamus which reduce appetite, caused by the decrease in leptin and insulin (as mentioned above). On the ...