What we feel shapes our emotional life – and helps us react correctly and quickly.

They say love is blind. Neurobiologists have discovered that this is true. What's more, it's also addictive.

The “queen of glands” regulates vital processes. It has nothing to do with colds.

Nutrition and reproduction – these activities are controlled by the hypothalamus at the neural and hormonal levels.

Probably not the seat of the soul after all: the pineal gland in the epithalamus.