Education
 

Pituitary stalk

From Psychology Wiki

Community portal · Tasks to do · News · Help

Clinical · Educational · Ind&Org · Other fields · Professional · Transpersonal · World

Assessment | Biopsychology | Comparative | Cognitive | Developmental | Language
Personality | Philosophy | Research Methods | Social | Statistics

Biological: Behavioural genetics · Evolutionary psychology · Neuroanatomy · Neurochemistry · Neuroendocrinology · Psychoneuroimmunology · Physiological Psychology · Psychopharmacology


Brain: Pituitary stalk
Pituitary stalk not labeled, but is the vertical blue portion.
[[Image:|250px|center|]]
Latin infundibulum neurohypophyseos
Gray's subject #189 813
Part of
Components
Artery
Vein
BrainInfo/UW hier-388
MeSH A06.407.747
Also see infundibulum for other uses of the term.

The pituitary stalk (also known as the infundibular stalk or simply the infundibulum) is the connection between the hypothalamus and the posterior pituitary.

It carries axons from the magnocellular neurosecretory cells of the hypothalamus down to the posterior pituitary where they release their hormones into the blood.

This connection is called the hypothalamic-hypophyseal tract, and is responsible for the release of oxytocin and antidiuretic hormone.

[edit] Additional images

[edit] External links


Smallwikipedialogo.png This page uses content from the English-language version of Wikipedia. The original article was at Pituitary stalk. The list of authors can be seen in the page history. As with Psychology Wiki, the text of Wikipedia is available under the GNU Free Documentation License.