Sunlight activates hormones essential for mood, sleep and reproductive health — that’s why it’s important to go outside when ...

Male hormone levels maintain day-to-day stability while female hormones experience continuous changes throughout both the ...

In today’s fast-paced world, nutrition often takes a backseat to convenience. However, when it comes to fertility and ...

Nearly 10 years after the discovery that birds make a hormone that suppresses reproduction, University of California, Berkeley, neuroscientists have established that humans make it too, opening the ...

A scoping review of seven studies plus one abstract identified menopause-associated OCD onset in 5% of women reporting onset ...

The following outlines aspects of the female reproductive system, including the internal and external organs, the menstrual cycle, the egg, and reproductive hormones. The menstrual cycle is a monthly ...

Microglia (immune cells) and the RANK protein are essential for triggering puberty and maintaining fertility in the brain.

Christian Kramme grew up in a big family, the youngest of seven kids raised in California’s Santa Clarita Valley. By the time he moved across the country to do a PhD in George Church’s lab at Harvard, ...

Researchers found a rare, strictly binary brain feature in mice that is permanently active in females but completely dormant ...

Men have nipples, mammary glands and the hormones required, but the ability for male lactation rarely turns on. Here’s why ...

The kick-off signal for puberty begins in the brain. Specifically, in the hypothalamus, where specific neurons release a ...