FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience Articles·February 11, 2021·4 min readOnce Bitten, Twice Shy: What Happens in the Brain When We Have Bad Experiences With FoodWith the help of snails, researchers investigate the neural processes at work when we develop food aversions after eating a bad meal.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience ArticlesPsychology·November 11, 2020·3 min readTaste Aversion Reveals How Bad Experiences Modify Brain and BehaviorLearning to avoid certain tastes depends on the long term reduction in activity the connections between threat and taste sensors in the brain.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscience·April 5, 2018·5 min readResearchers Identify Area of the Amygdala Involved in Taste AversionA new study implicates the basolateral amygdala in conditioned taste aversion. The study could pave the way for treatments to curb taste aversions associated with chemotherapy and eating disorders.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscience·September 22, 2014·4 min readNew Discovery in the Study of the Brain and MemoryResearchers discover a functional link between an area of the brain associated with taste memory and an area associated with encoding the time and place the memory occurred.Read More
