title: Great Expectations: Anticipatory Control of Magnocellular Vasopressin Neurons.
abstract: Real-time activity measurements of genetically identified neuroendocrine vasopressin neurons show they can anticipate osmotic challenges. In this issue of Neuron, Mandelblat-Cerf et al. (2017) show that correlating these results with ongoing behavior and plasma osmolality points to the existence of brain networks that integrate exterosensory cues with interosensory signals to drive neuroendocrine output.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, The University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA. Electronic address: watts@usc.edu.
authors.forename: Alan G
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: Watts
mesh_terms: D001127:Arginine Vasopressin; D009474:Neurons; D014667:Vasopressins
chemical_list: D014667:Vasopressins; D001127:Arginine Vasopressin