New Understanding of Thirst Emerges from Brain Study

Wednesday, August 3, 2016 - 13:01 in Health & Medicine

A new UC San Francisco study shows that specialized brain cells in mice “predict” the hydrating effects of drinking, deactivating long before the liquids imbibed can actually change the composition of the bloodstream. The results stand in stark contrast to current views of thirst regulation, which hold that the brain signals for drinking to stop […]

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