Assertion: hypothalamus's role | /r/HasProperty | important
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text: Therefore, the hypothalamus, mainly the PMDvl, has an important role in expression of innate and conditioned defensive behaviors to a predator.
text: The hypothalamus has long been known to play an essential role in organizing and coordinating a number of goal-oriented behaviors (4–6), and recent evidence indicates that predator-associated cue processing and predator-associated fear response expression depend on a specific hypothalamic subsystem.
text: It plays an important role in hormone production and helps to stimulate many important processes in the body and is located in the brain, between the pituitary gland and thalamus.
text: This makes another distinction between the two – the thalamus is a part of only the nervous system, while the hypothalamus can be regarded as both part of the nervous and endocrine system, since it plays an important role in both.