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 hormone which the anterior pituitary gland produces is called ADH. The ADH hormone is responsible for the balance of water within the human body. These are the stages in which the ADH hormone acts if there is too little water: 1. The hypothalamus (a part of the brain) detects too little water in blood.
Four of the six anterior pituitary hormones are tropic hormones that regulate the function of other endocrine organs. Most anterior pituitary hormones exhibit a diurnal rhythm of release, which is subject to modification by stimuli influencing the hypothalamus.