Mice taught to link smells with tastes, and later fear, revealed how the amygdala teams up with cortical regions to let the ...

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The hunger switch in your nose: How smells tell your brain to stop eating How the smell of food triggers brain cells that make mice feel less hungry Date: June 12, 2025 Source: Max Planck ...

Scientists have been investigating how the brain makes decisions by participating in the storage of associations between different stimuli.

Researchers identified two genetically distinct brain cell types that help categorize odors, triggering either positive or ...

A better understanding of human smell is emerging as scientists interrogate its fundamental elements: the odor molecules that ...

Smells trigger powerful emotional responses through specialized brain cells. These insights may improve sensory health. You wouldn’t microwave fish around your worst enemy. The smell lingers in both ...

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No more hunger after cooking? A newly identified network of nerve cells is responsible, a research group at the Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research has discovered in mice. They discovered ...

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The team suspects that neurogenesis happens in other parts of the adult brain, too. In mice, new neurons are regularly made ...

In a nutshell Researchers identified two distinct brain pathways that determine whether an odor feels pleasant or threatening, shedding light on how our brains emotionally interpret smells. These same ...