“…This anticipation of future as well as present needs is a common feature of adaptive regulation of many physiologic variables (Somjen, 1992; Woods and Ramsay, 2007), and in the cardiovascular field has been termed feedforward homeostatic control (Dampney, 2016). In this light, the recently discovered food/water cue-based and circadian control of AgRP hunger neurons, subfornical (SFO) and organum vasculosum of the lamina terminalis (OVLT) thirst neurons, and water-excretion controlling vasopressin neurons, to be discussed later in greater detail, could be viewed as serving anticipatory, feedforward “homeostatic” functions (Betley et al, 2015; Chen et al, 2015; Gizowski et al, 2016; Mandelblat-Cerf et al, 2017; Mandelblat-Cerf et al, 2015; Zimmerman et al, 2016). …”