Semana 2

Question 1

Hypothalamus

Answer 1

Maintains homeostasis by regulating Thirst and water balance, controlling adenohypophysis and neurohypophysis release of hormones produced in the hypothalamus, and regulating hunger, autonomic nervous system, temperature, and sexual urges

Question 2

Lateral nucleus

Answer 2

Hypothalamus
-Hunger, stimulated by ghrelin and inhibited by leptin.
-Injury: anorexia, failure to thrive

Question 3

Ventromedial nucleus

Answer 3

Satiety. Stimulated by leptin
-Injury: hyperphagia, obesity

Question 4

Anterior nucleus

Answer 4

Cooling, parasymphatetic
Injury: hyperthermia

Question 5

Posterior nucleus

Answer 5

Heating, sympathetic
-Injury: hypothermia

Question 6

Suprachiasmatic nuclues

Answer 6

Circadian rhythm
Injury: insomnio

Question 7

Supraoptic nucleus

Answer 7

Regulates water balance. Production of: ADH, oxytocin
Injury: diabates insipida

Question 8

Paraventricular nucleus

Answer 8

Regulates water balance. Production of TRH, CRH, somatostatina, ADH, oxytocin
Injury: diabetes insipida

Question 9

Preoptic nucleus

Answer 9

Regulates sex function and the secretion of gonatropic hormones. Thermoregulation.
Injury: kallman syndrome

Question 10

Arcuate hypothalamic nucleus

Answer 10

regulates secretion of neuroendocrine hormones from the pituitary gland. Inhibts lactation (contains dopaminergic neurons that inhibts prolactin and GnRH)

Question 11

Mamillary body

Answer 11

controls episodic memory, receives input from the hippocampus, projects to the anter thalamic nucleus
Injury:wernicke encephalopathy