Historically, the body's sensory systems have been presumed to provide the brain with raw
information about the external environment, which the brain must interpret to select a …

The sense of taste is a key component of the sensory machinery, enabling the evaluation of
both the safety as well as forming associations regarding the nutritional value of ingestible …

A stressor can trigger lasting adaptations that contribute to neuropsychiatric disorders.
Predator odor (TMT) exposure is an innate stressor that may activate the metabotropic …

Events separated in time are associatively learned in trace conditioning, recruiting more
neuronal circuits and molecular mechanisms than in delay conditioning. However, it remains …

The insular cortex (IC) is required for conditioned taste aversion (CTA) retrieval. However, it
remains unknown which cortical neurotransmitters levels are modified upon CTA retrieval …

Simple Summary It is important to decide what to eat and what not to eat in the life. Children
are likely to reject new foods. When eating a new food results in a negative experience, the …

Cue-potentiated feeding (CPF) describes instances where food intake is increased by
exposure to conditioned cues associated with food, often in the absence of hunger. CPF …

Taste information is processed in different brain structures in the mammalian brain, including
the gustatory cortex (GC), which resides within the insular cortex. N-methyl-d-aspartate …

Regulation of protein degradation via the ubiquitin proteasome system is crucial for normal
learning and synaptic plasticity processes. While some studies reveal that increased …

The basolateral amygdala (BLA) and the gustatory region of the insular cortex (IC) are
required for the encoding and retrieval of outcome value. Here, we examined if these …