Unlike Other Regions of the Brain,portions of the Hypothalamus Are

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Unlike other regions of the brain,portions of the hypothalamus are not guarded by the blood-brain barrier,so the hypothalamus can easily monitor chemical changes in the blood.​

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Definitions:

Diagnostic Tests

Procedures or assessments used to identify the presence of a disease, condition, or psychological state based on specific criteria or markers.

Positron Emission Tomography

A medical imaging technique that uses radioactive tracers to visualize and measure changes in metabolic processes in the body.

Isotopes

Variants of a particular chemical element which differ in neutron number, and consequently in nucleon number.

Neurotransmitters

Chemical messengers that transmit signals across a chemical synapse, from one neuron (nerve cell) to another target neuron, muscle cell, or gland.