Neuroscientists Find Brain Pathway Supporting an Intersection of Taste and Pain
Researchers have identified a pathway near the midbrain where neural messages for taste and pain converge, a new study reports.... Read More...
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How Animals Remember and Find Their Way Back to Food Sources
Study reveals the hippocampus may overlay existing mental maps with information about reward and hazard derived from food found in specific locations.... Read More...
Why We Shouldn’t Like Coffee, But We Do
Researchers question why many of us are unable to live without our daily cup of coffee. According to a new study, bitter tastes are a natural warning system to protect the body from harmful substances, yet people with heightened ability to detect the bitter taste of coffee learn to associate it with positive things and tend to drink more than those with lower sensitivity. Researchers say this sensitivity is caused by genetic variants. ... Read More...
Eating with Your Eyes: Virtual Reality Can Alter Taste
A new virtual reality study reveals people's perception of taste can be altered by what they experience in their surroundings.... Read More...
How the Brain Detects, Identifies and Acts on Taste
A new EEG study sheds light on how we identify and discriminate between tastes to assess if a substance is nutritious or toxic.... Read More...
Savory Foods May Promote Healthy Eating Through Effects on the Brain
Researchers report consuming a savory broth can produce subtle neurobiological changes that promotes healthy eating behaviors and food choices. ... Read More...
When Life Gives You Lemons, You Take More Risks
Researchers report exposure to sour foods can increase our desire to take a few risks. Risk averse people, such as those with anxiety disorders, could benefit from eating sour tasting foods to help boost risk taking behaviors, such as talking to new people.... Read More...
Switching Off Cravings and Food Pleasure in the Brain: Mouse Study
A new study reports altering activity in the amygdala can eliminate cravings for sweet foods. Researchers believe the findings could help develop new treatments for eating disorders.... Read More...
Researchers Identify Area of the Amygdala Involved in Taste Aversion
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.... Read More...
How Obesity Dulls the Sense of Taste
Researchers report inflammation driven by obesity reduces the number of taste buds in mice. As a result, obese mice had a diminished sense of taste. ... Read More...
How do we Taste Sugar, Bacon and Coffee? Science Finds a Surprising Answer
University at Buffalo have uncovered a new chemical pathway that helps the brain to detect bitter, sweet and savory flavors.... Read More...
The Sixth Taste?
UC Santa Barbara researchers reveal humans and fruit flies can sense the taste of calcium. The researchers have identified a unique class of gustatory receptor neurons required to help taste calcium in Drosophila.... Read More...