Introduction Obesity is a growing epidemic that causes many serious health related
complications. While the causes of obesity are complex, there is conclusive evidence that …

Objective Previous studies have reported that individuals with obesity have reduced taste
perception, but the relationship between obesity and taste is poorly understood. Earlier work …

Taste perception changes with obesity but the underlying neural changes remain poorly
understood. To address this issue, we recorded taste responses from single cells in the …

The incidence of obesity has dramatically increased in recent years, and poses a public
health challenge for which an effective and scalable intervention strategy is yet to be found …

Sweet perception promotes food intake, whereas that of bitterness is inhibitory. Surprisingly,
the expression of sweet G protein-coupled taste receptor (GPCTR) subunits (T1R2 and …

The increased palatability of modern diet contributes to eating beyond homeostatic need
and in turn to the growing prevalence of obesity. How palatability is coded in taste-evoked …

Abstract Purpose of Review We summarize neuroimaging findings related to processing of
taste (fat, salt, umami, bitter, and sour) in the brain and how they influence hedonic …

In the oral cavity, taste receptor cells dedicate to detecting chemical compounds in foodstuffs
and transmitting their signals to gustatory nerve fibers. Heretofore, five taste qualities (sweet …

Palatable foods lead to overeating, and it is almost a forgone conclusion that it is also an
important contributor to the current obesity epidemic–there is even talk about food addiction …

Previous attempts to uncover a relation between taste processing and weight status have
yielded inconclusive results leaving it unclear whether lean and obese individuals process …