“Acquired forms of growth hormone deficiency include tumors of the pituitary, hypothalamus and optic nerve.”

“The dura also forms a diaphragm above the pituitary gland, through which passes the pituitary stalk, joining the gland to the hypothalamus.”

“Axons of neurons in the hippocampus run in a tract called the fornix, which ends on neurons in the mammillary bodies of the hypothalamus.”