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‘It must be something I ate’ is hard-wired into the brain. The Transmitter, Mar 2024.
Story: Angie Voyles Askham
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Press and Media
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Hate cilantro or anchovies? Evolutionary science could explain why
By Olivia Ferrari
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Associative learning: A mechanism for conditioned taste aversion
By Matthew Carter, Williams College
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How the brain remembers what gave you food poisoning
By Dan Vahaba
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It must be something I ate — How the brain learns what made you sick
By Alison Cranage
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Brain region critical for coping with chronic stress identified in mice
By Meenakshi Asokan
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‘It must be something I ate’ is hard-wired into the brain
By Angie Voyles Askham
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Scientific American, Sep 2022
Your body has a clever way to detect how much water you should drink every daySociety for Neuroscience, Oct 2020
Society for Neuroscience presents Lindsley Prize to Kiah Hardcastle and Christopher ZimmermanNaked Neuroscience Podcast, Oct 2020
How does thirst work in the brain?Inverse, Oct 2020
Scientists discover the origin of thirst in the brainEppendorf, Oct 2020
Research on thirst wins 2020 Eppendorf & Science PrizeAAAS, Oct 2020
Real-time signals from body to brain help regulate sensation of thirstFred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Mar 2020
Fred Hutch announces 2020 Harold M Weintraub Graduate Student Award recipientsNature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Apr 2019
A thirst-quenching gut–brain signalNational Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Mar 2019
Your gut controls your thirst and keeps your brain informedInscopix, Mar 2019
A gut check tells the brain about thirstNPR, Mar 2019
Blech! Brain science explains why you’re not thirsty for salt waterHHMI, Mar 2019
Thirst controlled by signal from the gutUCSF, Mar 2019
Had enough water? Brain’s thirst centers make a gut checkCell, Nov 2016
Firing up in anticipationNature, Sep 2016
Forecast for water balanceNature Podcast, Aug 2016
Scientists quench a decades-old question about thirstSTAT, Aug 2016
Thirsty? Your brain knows before you doBBC, Aug 2016
Brain’s thirst circuit ‘monitors the mouth’UCSF, Aug 2016
New understanding of thirst emerges from brain study