Central hypothyroidism is a rare disorder that occurs when your body doesn't produce enough thyroid hormone due to problems that originate in the pituitary gland, the hypothalamus, or both ...

Hypothyroidism is often associated with mood disturbances and cognitive impairment, meaning that the thyroid hormones are ...

This whole process is regulated by your pituitary gland located at the centre of the skull. As already mentioned, there are two brad categories of thyroid disorders: Hypothyroidism and ...

One of the reasons was that the field confined itself to studying only what endocrine glands produced; many times endocrinology was just a matter of describing 'hyper-hormonemia' or 'hypo-hormonemia'.

(3) After all of the AVP stored in the posterior pituitary gland has been released, a third phase of diabetes insipidus develops if >80-90% of the AVP-secreting neuronal cell bodies in the ...

The amount of T4 produced by your thyroid gland is controlled by the levels of TSH production by your pituitary gland. Therefore, if your pituitary gland sees very little T4, it will produce more ...