Thirst

by Barbara J. Rolls and Edmund T. Rolls

Book Overview

Thirst is a subjective sensation, triggered by a lack of water and accompanied by the desire to drink. As a powerful and compelling sensation, it is perhaps only exceeded by the hunger for air and by pain, and is central to any concern with the overall mechanisms of homeostasis. Drinking is essential to the survival of most terrestrial vertebrates, and provides a useful model system with which to analyse the control of a complex type of behaviour...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521297184
• ISBN13: 9780521297189
• Release Date: April 1982
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"