Topic: Conditioned taste aversion

Identifying and avoiding potentially harmful food is crucial for the survival of many organisms. Conditioned taste aversion (CTA) is an associative learning paradigm when a novel appetitive tastant (e.g., saccharin) paired with a malaise-inducing agent, such as intraperitoneal injection of lithium chloride (LiCl), induces an aversion towards the same tastant when presented again. Recently, we have demonstrated that taste valence is encoded, at least in part, by changes in the intrinsic and synaptic properties of layer V/VI projecting neurons in aIC. Recent rodent studies have demonstrated that

Plant-derived flavonoids have been demonstrated to enhance cognitive function in various organisms, including invertebrates. In the pond snail Lymnaea stagnalis, epicatechin facilitates memory formation through conditioned taste aversion (CTA) training. These snails were categorized into two groups: "good learner" and "poor learner", based on their feeding behaviour 24hours after CTA training. The "good learner" snails showed at least a 40% reduction in feeding behaviour compared to the pre-test levels, while the others were categorized as "poor learner". This study first investigated the effe