Mid Term Flashcards
Flavor
Taste plus touch plus smell
Multimodal
When different things act to creat a whole experience of taste
Oral-somatosensory
Sensations in mouth that give rise to feeling
Gustatory sense
5 different tastes Sweet Salty Sour Bitter Unami(savory)
I ripe bananas contain
Serotonin
Our brains are at the top of our body because
It’s key purpose is to find food, smell and eat it
Our taste system to end result
Mouth
Taste buds (epiglottis, posterior, anterior)
Cranial nerves
Nucleus of solitary tract
Brain stem and oral somatosensory system
Spinal trigeminal nucleus
Thalamus
What is more important to taste than our mouths?
Olfactory system
Retro nasal olfaction
After chewing molecules are released to the nasopharynx and stimulate receptors on the olfactory epithelium
Anosmia
Not being able to smell
Thresholds for different tatses
Low for bitter
High for sweet and salty
What is the neurotransmitter that carries out a lot of the action basil ganglia
Dopamine
Three types of taste papillae
Fungi form (25%)
Circumvallate (50%)
Foliate (25%)
Taste papillae order
Fungiform, foliate, circumvallate
Tip and back of tongue different tastes
Tip -sweet, Unami, salty
Back - sour and bitter
What does lipid soluble mean
Can pass the blood brain barrier
What drugs are lipid soluble
Nicotine and caffeine
How do we identify super tasters
Number of papilla and if they can taste prop
What foods reduce cognitive decline
Fruits and vegetables
Acetylcholine
Enables humans to move by stimulating muscles to contract. Affects our fight or flight.
Acetylcholine I’m Alzheimer’s
The neurons that project to the hippocampus and cortex slowly die
Nicotine and brain functioning
Low doses can increase attention and arousal, high doses or chain smoking can produce sedative effects
What happens if you eat cheese, smoke, and drink wine
Fluctuations in blood pressure, nausea, headache, rash, dizziness, vomiting, falling asleep.
Bed criteria
Eat more than usual in one sitting
Once a week for three months
Guilt or ashamed of eating episodes
Dopamine is related to
Reward
Dopamine and obesity
Affects our levels of arousal and craving for food
Best times to eat
9-4
People with kidney issues shouldn’t eat
Star fruit
Flavonoids
Create higher levels of blood flow to the brain
Chocolate contains
Flavonoids, and contain a weed like neurotransmitter
Aluminum
Is bad for people’s long term health
Ecstasy
Inhibits mitochondria in your body from producing atp. You sweat and become hypothermic
Coke
Inhibits sodium-ion channels. Blocks pain, crosses blood brain barriers
Emotional pain is similar to
Physical pain
People and animals prefer Coke over
Water and food
Name synapses on diagram
Look in book
