Your brain's 'master switchboard' is an underappreciated marvel; When you're sleepy or hungry, that's the hypothalamus at work.

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  • Author(s): By:Jocelyn Solis-Moreira
  • Source:
    Popular Science, October 26, 2023 Science, 4pp
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    • Abstract:
      Before your most recent meal, you might have felt some hunger pangs, signaling it was time to eat. Maybe you developed a sudden craving for Italian or another cuisine. These cues did not come out of thin air—they are the work of an almond-sized region in the brain called the hypothalamus...