In a recent mouse-model study published in Nature Neuroscience, researchers from University Hospitals (UH), Harrington Discovery Institute at UH, and Case Western Reserve University discovered that ...

There are few feelings more satisfying than gulping down water when you are thirsty. But how does your brain know when you are dehydrated or satiated, and how does it use this information to initiate ...

There are few feelings more satisfying than gulping down water when you are thirsty. But how does your brain know when you are dehydrated or satiated, and how does it use this information to initiate ...

How do we know when we are thirsty and when our thirst is sated? Thirst is regulated by nerve cells in the brain, which can stimulate and stifle the desire to drink. Scientists at Caltech have now ...

There are few feelings more satisfying than gulping down water when you are thirsty. But how does your brain know when you are dehydrated or satiated, and how does it use this information to initiate ...

“It’s a very elegant study using optogenetics to identify separate cell populations that clearly act in opposite ways on thirst,” said Joseph Verbalis of Georgetown University, who was not involved in ...

Low temperatures apparently shut down the same neurons that generate thirst Scientists have glimpsed activity deep in the mouse brain which can explain why we get thirsty when we eat, and why cold ...