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| Associations between brain structure and perceived intensity of sweet and bitter tastes. |
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| Functional neuroimaging studies have identified brain regions associated with human taste perception, but only a few have investigated the associations with brain structure. Here, in this exploratory study, we examined the association between the volumes of 82 regions of interest (ROI) and the perceived intensities of sweet (a weighted mean rating of glucose, fructose, aspartame, neohesperidin dihydrochalcone) and bitter (propylthiouracil, quinine, caffeine) substances in a large Australian healthy cohort from the Queensland Twin IMaging (QTIM, n = 559) study and the perceived intensity of quinine in a large U.S. healthy cohort from the Human Connectome Project (HCP, n = 1101). In QTIM, the volumes of 3 cortical (right cuneus gyrus, left transverse temporal gyrus, right inferior temporal gyrus) and one subcortical structure (both left and right caudate) were associated with more than one taste stimulus (P < 0.05) and tended to be associated with both sweet and bitter tastes in the same direction, suggesting these ROIs were more broadly tuned for taste sensation. A further 11 ROIs were associated with a specific taste (sweetness: 4; propylthiouracil: 3; caffeine: 2; quinine: 2). In HCP, volumes of 5 ROIs were associated with quinine bitterness. The quinine-left entorhinal cortex association was found in both QTIM (r = -0.12, P = 3.7 × 10 ) and HCP (r = -0.06, P = 2.0 × 10 ). This study provides the first evidence that, even in healthy people, variation in brain structure is associated with taste intensity ratings, and provides new insights into the brain gustatory circuit. |
| Copyright © 2019. Published by Elsevier B.V. |
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2018/11/12 |
| revised |
2019/01/12 |
| accepted |
2019/01/25 |
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2019/02/01 06:00 |
| pubmed |
2019/02/01 06:00 |
| medline |
2019/02/01 06:00 |
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| Hwang LD |
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Hwang |
Liang-Dar |
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Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia; University of Queensland Diamantina Institute, University of Queensland, Translational Research Institute, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia; Faculty of Medicine, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia; QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Electronic address: d.hwang@uq.edu.au. |
| Strike LT |
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Strike |
Lachlan T |
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Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
| Couvy-Duchesne B |
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Couvy-Duchesne |
Baptiste |
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Institute for Bioscience, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
| de Zubicaray GI |
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de Zubicaray |
Greig I |
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Faculty of Health, and Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove, Queensland, Australia. |
| McMahon K |
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McMahon |
Katie |
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Faculty of Health, and Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove, Queensland, Australia; School of Clinical Science, Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove, Queensland, Australia. |
| Breslin PAS |
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Breslin |
Paul A S |
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Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; Dept. of Nutritional Sciences, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA. |
| Reed DR |
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Reed |
Danielle R |
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Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. |
| Martin NG |
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Nicholas G |
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QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
| Wright MJ |
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Wright |
Margaret J |
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Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia; Centre for Advanced Imaging, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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| TITLE: Behavioural brain research |
| ISOABBREVIATION: Behav. Brain Res. |
| YEAR: 2019 |
| MONTH: Jan |
| DAY: 28 |
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| CITEDMEDIUM: Internet |
| ISSN: 1872-7549 |
| ISSNTYPE: Electronic |
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| MEDLINETA: Behav Brain Res |
| COUNTRY: Netherlands |
| ISSNLINKING: 0166-4328 |
| NLMUNIQUEID: 8004872 |
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| bitter |
| brain structure |
| gustatory cortex |
| sweet |
| taste |
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