Does thirst make you more likely to think you see water? Tales of thirsty desert travelers and oasis mirages are consistent with our intuitions that appetitive state can influence what we see in the world. Yet there has been surprisingly little scrutiny of this appetitive modulation of perception. We tested whether dehydrated subjects would be biased towards perceptions of transparency, a commo...

BackgroundThirst is a troublesome symptom in patients with Heart Failure (HF) and one that might be perceived differently different countries depending on climate, food cultural habits. The aims of the study were to describe thirst frequency, duration intensity identify factors associated frequent outpatients HF Mediterranean country.MethodsData was collected cross-sectional involving 302 diagn...

2022 has been an extraordinarily dry year for some regions of the planet. Rivers are running low, reservoirs shrinking and animals going thirsty. However, drought is a routine part life cottonmouth (Agkistrodon conanti) population Snake Key, off Florida coast, USA. ‘The islands Cedar Keys recently formed relic sand dunes recent patterns sea level rise in northern Gulf Mexico suggest have isolat...