Parasomnias are disruptive sleep disorders that can occur during arousals from REM sleep or partial arousals from non-REM sleep. Parasomnias include nightmares, night terrors, sleepwalking, confusional arousals, and many others.
The anterior pituitary gland produces 6 hormones, they are: Growth hormones (GH) to the bones and muscles, thyrotropic hormones (TSH) to the thyroid, prolactin (PRL) to the mammary glands, adrenocorticotropic hormones (ACTH) to the adrenal cortex, follicle-stimulating hormones (FSH) and luteinizing hormones (LH) to the testes or ovaries.
Although the hypothalamus does not produce the hormones of the anterior pituitary as in the posterior pituitary, it plays an important role in their production. Releasing hormones synthesized by hypothalamic neurons travel down axons and diffuse into the primary plexus of the hypophyseal portal system.he posterior pituitary is, in effect, a projection of the hypothalamus. It does not produce its own hormones, but only stores and releases the hormones created by the hypothalamus, whereas the anterior pituitary produces and secretes its own hormones.