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·August 26, 2019·3 min read

Obesity tied to weakened response to taste

High-fat diets produce blunted, more prevalent responses to taste in the brain and weaken the association of taste responses with ingestive behaviors.

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Featured Neuroscience Psychology

·June 9, 2019·4 min read

Posture impacts how you perceive your food

Whether you stand up to eat or sit for dinner, your posture influences how much you enjoy your meal. Standing to eat mutes taste perception and reduces sensory sensitivity, resulting in a decreased enjoyment of food.

This shows the network from the gustatory thalamus to the cortex in mice

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·May 7, 2019·3 min read

Neurons that encode sweetness identified: Mouse study

SatB2PBN-expressing neurons in the parabrachial nucleus play a key role in processing and encoding sweet tastes. The SatB2PBN neurons relay sweet taste signals from the gustatory thalamus to the cortex in mouse models.

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Featured Genetics Neuroscience

·May 5, 2019·3 min read

Genes linked to psychoactive properties of beverages may explain why we love coffee, beer and soda

Genes related to the psychoactive properties of sweet and bitter beverages, and not variations in our taste genes, may explain why some people prefer sodas over coffee, and vice-versa.

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·April 24, 2019·4 min read

Smelling with your tongue: Functional olfactory receptors in human taste center identified

Functional olfactory receptors have been identified in human taste cells. The findings suggest olfactory receptors play a role in the taste system by interacting with taste receptors on the tongue. The brain, researchers say, combines input from taste, smell and other senses to create a multi-modal sensation of flavor.

a diagram showing how pain and taste converge in the brain

Featured Neuroscience Pain

·March 12, 2019·3 min read

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.

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·February 18, 2019·3 min read

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.

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·November 15, 2018·3 min read

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.

Featured Neuroscience Psychology

·October 16, 2018·3 min read

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.

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·October 15, 2018·4 min read

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.

Featured Neuroscience

·July 6, 2018·4 min read

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.

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·June 8, 2018·4 min read

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.

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taste

Obesity tied to weakened response to taste

Posture impacts how you perceive your food

Neurons that encode sweetness identified: Mouse study

Genes linked to psychoactive properties of beverages may explain why we love coffee, beer and soda

Smelling with your tongue: Functional olfactory receptors in human taste center identified

Neuroscientists Find Brain Pathway Supporting an Intersection of Taste and Pain

How Animals Remember and Find Their Way Back to Food Sources

Why We Shouldn’t Like Coffee, But We Do

Eating with Your Eyes: Virtual Reality Can Alter Taste

How the Brain Detects, Identifies and Acts on Taste

Savory Foods May Promote Healthy Eating Through Effects on the Brain

When Life Gives You Lemons, You Take More Risks

Blocking a Key Protein Greatly Reduces Alzheimer’s Damage

Why Memories Change: How the Brain Rewrites the Past

Astrocytes Found to Drive Key Brain Changes in Nicotine Addiction

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