Regardless, all of these postpartum mood disorders are thought to be, at least in
part, due to some, some problem with the release of oxytocin and prolactin.
So the, the oxytocin, can be replaced.
And in fact, now there's been, there's been this amazing, new
treatment, which is that we can now give women internasally delivered oxytocin.
And in a large number of women,
this really helps with postpartum mood disorders.
So this is a really exciting discovery, it's
one that came out of basic science work in
rodents, we didn't learn about this initially from women,
but we've been able to apply it to women.
And it's really one of the most
exciting new treatments to develop out of neurobiology.
So that's what we're going to look at for the hypothalamus.
And now we're going to look at these, in the
next module we'll look at these other homeostatic functions.
And we'll start with one of the easiest
and, and most illustrative examples and that's thermoregulation.
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