Publications

Zimmerman CA†, Bolkan SS, Pan‑Vazquez A, Wu B, Keppler EF, Meares‑Garcia JB, Guthman EM, Fetcho RN, McMannon B, Lee J, Hoag AT, Lynch LA, Janarthanan SR, López Luna JF, Bondy AG, Falkner AL, Wang SSH, Witten IB†. A neural mechanism for learning from delayed postingestive feedback. bioRxiv, 2023. Nature, 2025.

Zhukovskaya A, Zimmerman CA†, Willmore L, Pan‑Vazquez A, Janarthanan SR, Lynch LA, Falkner AL, Witten IB†. Heightened lateral habenula activity during stress produces brainwide and behavioral substrates of susceptibility. bioRxiv, 2023. Neuron, 2024.

Zimmerman CA. Neuroscience: Secretin excites the thirst circuit. Current Biology, 2022.

Zimmerman CA. The origins of thirst. Science, 2020.

Zimmerman CA, Knight ZA. Layers of signals that regulate appetite. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 2020.

Zimmerman CA, Huey EL, Ahn JS, Beutler LR, Tan CL, Kosar S, Bai L, Chen Y, Corpuz TV, Madisen L, Zeng H, Knight ZA. A gut-to-brain signal of fluid osmolarity controls thirst satiation. Nature, 2019.

Leib DE*, Zimmerman CA*, Poormoghaddam A, Huey EL, Ahn JS, Lin YC, Tan CL, Chen Y, Knight ZA. The forebrain thirst circuit drives drinking through negative reinforcement. Neuron, 2017.

Zimmerman CA, Leib DE, Knight ZA. Neural circuits underlying thirst and fluid homeostasis. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2017.

Zimmerman CA, Lin YC, Leib DE, Guo L, Huey EL, Daly GE, Chen Y, Knight ZA. Thirst neurons anticipate the homeostatic consequences of eating and drinking. Nature, 2016.

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