Though the pineal gland wasn’t understood until the 20th century, descriptions of its anatomical location are included in the ...

Your brain contains a small pine cone-shaped gland called the pineal gland. It’s about the size of a grain of rice. However, that size can vary in animals depending on their location. ‌ ...

THE purpose of this review is to summarize the known functions of the pineal gland. Then, utilizing recent evidence linking the visual and limbic systems, a hypothesis will be advanced concerning ...

At the center of this transformation lies the pineal gland—a small, pinecone-shaped structure in the brain long associated with intuition, consciousness, and what mystics call the “third eye.” ...

It stands to reason that the pineal gland has an important role in this context (2), but surprisingly it deserved only a marginal note, even in this comprehensive literature review “[. . . ] the ...

A BUNDLE of nerve-fibres running upwards from the tip of the pineal gland in some mammals was described by Kolmer and Loewy in 1922 1, and was termed by them the "nervus conarii". However ...