René Descartes once described the pineal gland as “the principal seat of the soul.” Medical knowledge has vastly progressed since his time, though. Here’s what we know about this critical organ.

WEBINO (walled-eyes bilateral internuclear ophthalmolplegia) is a rare clinical syndrome of exotropia with bilateral INO associated with the loss of fusional vergence. It is usually caused by ...

Modern medicine and science knows a lot about the human body. No matter how knowledgeable someone is, however, nobody would claim that they know everything that can be known about it. One little gland ...

THE purpose of this review is to summarize the known functions of the pineal gland. Then, utilizing recent evidence linking the visual and limbic systems, a hypothesis will be advanced concerning ...

Your brain contains a small pine cone-shaped gland called the pineal gland. It’s about the size of a grain of rice. However, that size can vary in animals depending on their location. ‌This tiny gland ...

Surgery performed with its focus on one or more of the endocrine organs is referred to as endocrine surgery. The endocrine organs are glands located throughout the body, which secrete hormones that ...

The pineal gland, a reddish-gray, pine cone-shaped part of the brain, is unremarkable at first glance: It’s about a third of an inch long and tucked deep in the brain, near the center and between both ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Exposure to light reduces the ability of the rat pineal gland to synthesize melatonin and decreases the weight of the gland. When the ...

Biologists have identified a gene controlling left-right asymmetry in the brain and sleep-wake cycles. When zebrafish lack a specific protein, the two hemispheres of the brain develop symmetrically, ...

Zebrafish are known to detect color and brightness with the pineal gland, which is part of the brain. How they do so is now being elucidated. We see color because photoreceptor cones in our eyes ...