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Messenger molecules—known as peptides, which were known to send and register information around the brain—are also in organs throughout your body, including your intestines, stomach, heart, liver, kidneys, and spine. These organs also send and register information.
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― Learn More Now: 10 Simple Steps to Learning Better, Smarter, and Faster
― Learn More Now: 10 Simple Steps to Learning Better, Smarter, and Faster
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Peptides operate on multiple scales: they have feedback effects on the cells of origin that modulate activity patterning, and local effects on neighboring cells to coordinate the behavior of a population; and the hormone-like release of peptides from cell populations can have organizational effects on distant targets. It's a mode of communication quite different from neurotransmitter release. Oxytocin, as we have seen, by its priming actions, can affect how oxytocin cells communicate with each o
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― The Heart of the Brain: The Hypothalamus and Its Hormones
― The Heart of the Brain: The Hypothalamus and Its Hormones
