Throughout the animal kingdom sucrose is one of the most palatable and preferred tastants.
From an evolutionary perspective, this is not surprising as it is a primary source of energy …

The gustatory system encodes information about chemical identity, nutritional value, and
concentration of sensory stimuli before transmitting the signal from taste buds to central …

Gustatory stimuli are detected by taste buds and transmitted to the hindbrain via sensory
afferent neurons. Whether each taste quality (sweet, bitter and so on) is encoded by …

Head-fixed behavioral experiments in rodents permit unparalleled experimental control,
precise measurement of behavior, and concurrent modulation and measurement of neural …

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 …

Electrophysiological analysis has revealed much about the broad coding and neural
ensemble dynamics that characterize gustatory cortical (GC) taste processing in awake rats …

Whereas many laboratory-studied decisions involve a highly trained animal identifying an
ambiguous stimulus, many naturalistic decisions do not. Consumption decisions, for …

Sucrose's sweet intensity is one attribute contributing to the overconsumption of high-energy
palatable foods. However, it is not known how sucrose intensity is encoded and used to …

Although the release of mesoaccumbal dopamine is certainly involved in rewarding
responses, recent studies point to the importance of the interaction between it and …

Obesity is a major global health epidemic that has adverse effects on both the people
affected as well as the cost to society. Several anti-obesity drugs that target GLP-1 receptors …