Crowned Britain’s Brightest Child on the night of March 2 at the Child Genius Competition of Channel 4, the 12-year-old stunned audiences when she spelt ‘neurohypophysis’ without batting an eyelid and ...

The area in question, the neurohypophysis, is an interface between nerve fibers and blood vessels located at the base of the brain. Here, some of the major brain-body interactions take place ...

THE sensory stimulus of suckling evokes nervous reflex release of the oxytocic substance from the neurohypophysis, which in turn stimulates the contractile tissue of the breast and causes a rise ...

ELECTRON microscope studies of the neurohypophysis have shown that the terminal branches of the hypothalamo-hypophysial tract fibres contain, in addition to mitochondria, vesicles or granules of ...