Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism

Scope of Neuroendocrinology

Neuroendocrinology covers a wide range of issues that are related to neuroendocrine neurons, either directly or indirectly. Neuroendocrinology is a discipline of biology that investigates the relationship between the neurological and endocrine systems, or how the brain regulates the body's hormonal activity.  To govern the physiological activities of the human body, the neurological and endocrine systems frequently work together in a process known as neuroendocrine integration. The field of neuroendocrinology developed from the discovery that the brain, particularly the hypothalamus, regulates pituitary gland hormone release, and has since grown to encompass a wide range of endocrine and neurological system linkages.