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Antidiuretic hormone, also called arginine vasopressin (AVP), is a hormone produced by the hypothalamus in the brain and stored in the posterior pituitary gland at the base of the brain. ADH helps regulate water balance in the body.
In this way, it initiates the menstrual cycle. The pituitary gland, also known as the hypophysis, is a small gland connected to the hypothalamus by a stalk (called the infundibulum). The pituitary has 2 major lobes: the posterior and anterior.1  The posterior lobe is nerve tissue, and is really a downgrowth of the hypothalamus. Since it is a part of the brain, and made of nervous tissue, it has direct nervous influence. 2  It activates, controls and integrates the autonomic nervous system, and. 3  since it also acts as a gland, it's endocrine activity produces and secretes certain hormones and releasing factors.