ReviewFrontiers in molecular neuroscience2017
The Insula and Taste Learning.
Review in Frontiers in molecular neuroscience, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers.
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- Improving taste sensitivity in healthy adults using taste recall training: a randomized controlled trial.Scientific reports · 2022Trial
- The S1-insula Circuit Differentially Modulates Alcohol Drinking and Aversive Behavior in Mice.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026Article
- Neural coding in gustatory cortex reflects consumption decisions: evidence from conditioned taste aversion.Frontiers in systems neuroscience · 2026Article
- Insular cortex predictions regulate glucose homeostasis.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- A Scoping Review of Neurotoxic and Behavioral Outcomes Following Polychlorinated Biphenyl (PCB) Exposure in Post-Weaned Rodents.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Article
- Learning-Associated Flexibility of Cortical Taste Coding Is Impaired in Shank3 Knockout Mice.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Direct interoceptive input to the insular cortex shapes learned feeding behavior.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Melanin-concentrating hormone and orexin shape social affective behavior via action in the insular cortex of rat.Psychopharmacology · 2025Article
- Virally mediated expression of a biologically active peptide to restrain the nuclear functions of ERK1/2 attenuates learning extinction but not acquisition.Molecular brain · 2025Article
- Effect of taste recall training using 5 sweet substances on sweet taste sensitivities.Chemical senses · 2025Article
- Licking microstructure behavior classifies a spectrum of emotional states in mice.Frontiers in systems neuroscience · 2025Article
- A neural mechanism for learning from delayed postingestive feedback.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Converging Effects of Chronic Pain and Binge Alcohol Consumption on Anterior Insular Cortex Neurons Projecting to the Dorsolateral Striatum in Male Mice.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024Article
- Abnormal Amygdala Subregion Functional Connectivity in Patients with Crohn's Disease with or without Anxiety and Depression.Behavioural neurology · 2024Article
- The Role of Adipokines and Myokines in the Pathogenesis of Different Obesity Phenotypes-New Perspectives.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Escalation of alcohol intake is associated with regionally decreased insular cortex activity but not changes in taste quality.Alcohol, clinical & experimental research · 2023Article
- Experience-dependent plasticity of gustatory insular cortex circuits and taste preferences.Science advances · 2023Article
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- Higher-Order Inputs Involved in Appetite Control.Biological psychiatry · 2022Review
- How we decide what to eat: Toward an interdisciplinary model of gut-brain interactions.Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Cognitive science · 2022Review
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Abstract
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 substances. Indicative of the salience of the modality, taste conditioning can be achieved in rodents upon a single pairing of a tastant with a chemical stimulus inducing malaise. This robust associative learning paradigm has been heavily linked with activity within the insular cortex (IC), among other regions, such as the amygdala and medial prefrontal cortex. A number of studies have demonstrated taste memory formation to be dependent on protein synthesis at the IC and to correlate with the induction of signaling cascades involved in synaptic plasticity. Taste learning has been shown to require the differential involvement of dopaminergic GABAergic, glutamatergic, muscarinic neurotransmission across an extended taste learning circuit. The subsequent activation of downstream protein kinases (ERK, CaMKII), transcription factors (CREB, Elk-1) and immediate early genes (c-fos, Arc), has been implicated in the regulation of the different phases of taste learning. This review discusses the relevant neurotransmission, molecular signaling pathways and genetic markers involved in novel and aversive taste learning, with a particular focus on the IC. Imaging and other studies in humans have implicated the IC in the pathophysiology of a number of cognitive disorders. We conclude that the IC participates in circuit-wide computations that modulate the interception and encoding of sensory information, as well as the formation of subjective internal representations that control the expression of motivated behaviors.
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