Animals, from flies to humans, use olfaction to find resources, such as food and mates. How do such different creatures, with such different brains, all share this ability?
March 16, 2016
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TEST3Dr. Justus Verhagen, an Associate Fellow at The John B. Pierce Laboratory, along with a multi-disciplinary team of researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder, University of California-Berkeley, Weill Cornell Medical College, the University of Pittsburgh, and New York Universi
Continue Reading ?Pierce and Yale Scientists discuss Neurogastronomy with the “New Republic”
February 23, 2016
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TEST3Read the article here: https://newrepublic.com/article/128899/man-will-transform-eat… Read More >
Continue Reading ?What’s that smell? Figuring out how animals navigate with their noses.
January 19, 2016
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TEST3Justus Verhagen, PhD, an Associate Fellow at The John B. Pierce Laboratory, is one of 17 researchers nationwide working as part of the White House BRAIN Initiative under a grant from the National Science Foundation to study how the brain processes and identifies odors.… Continue Reading ?
Compromised dopamine signaling is associated with impulsive behaviors in obesity and alcoholism
January 14, 2016
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TEST3Compromised dopamine signaling is associated with impulsive behaviors in obesity and alcoholism and administration of fatty acid amide oleoylethanolamide (OEA) has been shown to rescue dopamine signaling in rodents. Dr. Dana Small and her colleagues tested whether three-week supplemen
Continue Reading ?Dr. Dana Small receives two honors
January 14, 2016
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TEST3Dana Small, PhD, Deputy Director for Research at The John B. Pierce Laboratory, and Professor of Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine, is the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior (SSIB) annual recipient of the Alan N.… Continue Reading ?
Heightened ability to imagine odors linked to higher body weight
January 14, 2016
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TEST3Researchers at The John B. Pierce Laboratory and the Yale School of Medicine have revealed that the ability to vividly imagine the smell of popcorn, freshly baked cookies and even non-food odors is greater in obese adults.… Continue Reading ?
Can robots be taught to smell?
November 09, 2015
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TEST3By Ed Stannard, New Haven Register
Posted: 10/29/15, 1:19 PM EDT
NEW HAVEN >> Understanding the sense of smell could help in building robots to do things we rely on animals to do today, such as locating people under the rubble of an earthquake, locating illegal drugs or finding
Continue Reading ?Olfactory navigation: Dynamic computing in the natural environment
September 22, 2015
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TEST3Dr. Verhagen awarded NSF grant to study olfaction
Justus V. Verhagen, associate fellow at the John B. Pierce Laboratory, and Yale neurobiologist, is one of 17 researchers nationwide to receive grants totaling $15 million from the National Science Foundation to study how the brain proc
Continue Reading ?The Sense of Smell Uses Fast Dynamics to Encode Odors
January 08, 2015
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TEST3Dr. Justus Verhagen and other Neuroscientists from the John B. Pierce Laboratory and Yale School of Medicine have discovered that mice can detect minute differences in the temporal dynamics of the olfactory system, according to research published in the open access journal PLOS Biolog
Continue Reading ?Why is it so hard to switch to a healthy, low-calorie diet?
August 30, 2013
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TEST3Research from the laboratory of Dr. Ivan de Araujo, Associate Fellow, makes significant progress toward answering this crucial question in the battle against obesity.
A major limitation of behavioral interventions for weight loss is the low appeal of low-calorie diets.… Continue Reading ?
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