With the help of snails, researchers investigate the neural processes at work when we develop food aversions after eating a bad meal.
Learning to avoid certain tastes depends on the long term reduction in activity the connections between threat and taste sensors in the brain.
A 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.
Researchers 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.
