Olfactory perception guides daily decisions regarding food consumption, social interactions,
and predator avoidance in all mammalian species. Volatile inputs, comprising odorants and …

Olfactory cues are vital for prey animals like rodents to perceive and evade predators. Stress-
induced hyperthermia, via brown adipose tissue (BAT) thermogenesis, boosts physical …

Stress responses, which are crucial for survival, are evolutionally conserved throughout the
animal kingdom. The most common endocrine axis among stress responses is that triggered …

The hypothalamic melanocortin system is critically involved in sensing stored energy and
communicating this information throughout the brain, including to brain regions controlling …

Obesity and type 2 diabetes are associated with cognitive dysfunction. Because the
hypothalamus is implicated in energy balance control and memory disorders, we …

Stress is thought to be an important contributing factor for eating disorders; however, neural
substrates underlying the complex relationship between stress and appetite are not fully …

Despite the importance of hypothalamic neurocircuits in regulating homeostatic and survival-
related behaviors, our understanding of the intrinsic molecular identities of neural …

Scents have been employed for millennia to allay stress, but whether or how they might do
so is largely unknown. Fear and stress induce increases in blood stress hormones …

A long proportion of the population is resilient to the negative consequences of stress.
Glucocorticoids resulting from endocrine responses to stress are essential adaptive …

The evoked release of corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) from nerve endings at the
median eminence is the single most powerful endocrine trigger for the hormonal cascade …