Research led by Charles Zuker, a neurobiologist at Columbia University’s Zuckerman Institute, identified two specific regions of the brain which respond to sweet and bitter tastes—and how to alter those responses.
“People gravitate towards how many people were killed immediately from drowning or falling debris. But the reality is the much, much bigger problem is the long-term inability to get to medical care,” said Dr. Irwin Redlener, director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University
New research in mice has revealed that the brain’s underlying desire for sweet, and its distaste for bitter, can be erased by manipulating neurons in the amygdala, the emotion center of the brain.
Increasing summer temperatures brought on by a combination of intensifying urbanization and a warming climate are causing cloud cover to plummet in southern coastal California, leading to increased risk of wildfires.