Neuroscience: The Secret of Sauce Béarnaise Syndrome Is in the Circuit

Marcus C Stensmyr; Sophie J C Caron

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2020.09.085

Neuroscience: The Secret of Sauce Béarnaise Syndrome Is in the Circuit

Curr Biol. 2020 Dec 7;30(23):R1413-R1415. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.09.085.

Authors

Marcus C Stensmyr¹, Sophie J C Caron²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biology, Lund University, 223 62 Lund, Sweden. Electronic address: marcus.stensmyr@biol.lu.se.
² School of Biological Sciences, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA. Electronic address: sophie.caron@utah.edu.

PMID: 33290705
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.09.085

Abstract

During conditioned food aversion - a.k.a. sauce béarnaise syndrome - the ingestion of a spoiled food item leads to a lasting aversion towards cues reminiscent of the item. A new study finds that, in Drosophila, taste aversion depends on the immune system and the mushroom body.

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MeSH terms

Animals
Avoidance Learning*
Cues
Eating
Mushroom Bodies*
Taste