Which organ system controls homeostasis?
Homeostasis is a complicated process involving many negative feedback pathways. One of the main ‘mediators’ for homeostatic function is the hypothalamus in the brain, where all the afferent neurons from the receptors around the body relay their information to. The hypothalamus will then calculate the difference between the received impulse and a homeostatic set point before generating a response which is sent down efferent nerves to the effector.
