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• The epithalamus includes the pineal body, the posterior commissure, and the trigonum habenulæ. IX. Neurology. 2. Development of the Nervous System
• The thyroid is one of the so-called ductless glands, like the adrenals above the kidneys, the pineal gland and the pituitary body. The War Terror
• He suggested that the pineal organ might have been phototropic, helping the animal to orient itself relative to the surface of the water.
• The longitudinal part of this sulcus expands superiorly to form a slight depression which supports the pineal body, a cone-like structure which projects backward from the thalamencephalon and partly obscures the superior colliculi. IX. Neurology. 4b. The Mid-brain or Mesencephalon
• On the other hand, the optic thalami, which lie between the latter, belong to the second division, which develops from the "intermediate brain"; to the same section belong the single third cerebral ventricle and the structures that are known as the corpora geniculata, the infundibulum, and the pineal gland. The Evolution of Man — Volume 2
• When the sun sets and darkness sweeps over, a pea-sized structure located deep between the hemispheres of your brain called the pineal gland begins to secrete this hormone, preparing you for bed. Dr. Michael J. Breus: Melatonin: Miracle or Mistake?
• In the case of the retina and the pineal of lower vertebrates, the cells involved are direct photoreceptors.
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• The pineal gland in the brain secretes melatonin, which has been linked to depression.
• In reality it is a membrane, the pineal gland, regarded in the East as the seat of extra-sensory perception.