ALAN KIM JOHNSON, PH.D. F. Wendell Miller Distinguished Professor

Departments of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Neuroscience and Pharmacology, and Health and Human Physiology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242

E-mail: alan-johnson@uiowa.edu

Research Interests

Integrative and regulatory physiology and psychobiology of  the neural control of body fluid and cardiovascular homeostasis.

Selected Reviews

Johnson AK, Xue B: Central nervous system neuroplasticity and the sensitization of hypertension. Nature Reviews Nephrology, 14(12):750-766, 2018.

Menani JV, De Luca Jr LA, Johnson AK: The role of the lateral parabrachial nucleus in the control of sodium appetite. Am J Physiol, Regul Integr Comp Physiol 306:R201-R210, 2014.

Grippo AJ,  & Johnson AK:  Stress, depression and cardiovascular dysregulation: a review of neurobiological mechanisms and the integration of research from preclinical disease models. Stress, 12, 1-21, 2009.

Johnson AK, Thunhorst RL: The neuroendocrinology of thirst and salt appetite: Visceral sensory signals and mechanisms of central integration.  Front Neuroendocrinol 18:292-353, 1997