Breakthrough shows where food reward begins (IMAGE)

University of Delaware

Breakthrough shows where food reward begins

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University of Delaware professor Lisha Shao is co-author of a new study in Current Biology that shows how the brain assigns value to taste in real time. Using fruit flies as a model, her team uncovered a neural mechanism that helps explain how taste is experienced as rewarding or not.

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