The Dynecephalon contains arthalamus and the hypothalamus. So the hypothalamus we're going to discuss in detail when we're going to look at the endocrine system. The hypothalamus is basically the control center of the endocrine system because it controls the pituitary gland, the master gland of our endocrine system. What about the thalamus? Well, the thalamus in many different ways is like the secretary of our cerebral. What that means is it relays sensory and motor signals to and from our cerebral and inside our cerebral.