{"id":110043,"date":"2020-07-16T15:24:47","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T22:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/neuronal-circuits-in-the-brain-sense-our-inner-state"},"modified":"2020-07-16T15:24:47","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T22:24:47","slug":"neuronal-circuits-in-the-brain-sense-our-inner-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/neuronal-circuits-in-the-brain-sense-our-inner-state","title":{"rendered":"Neuronal circuits in the brain \u2018sense\u2019 our inner state"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/neuronal-circuits-in-the-brain-sense-our-inner-state2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Animals have an innate preference for certain scents and tastes. Attractive scents are linked to things like good food. Less attractive scents\u2014that of spoiled food, for example\u2014instinctively give the animal a signal which says: \u201cThere could be danger here!\u201d When it comes to taste, all animals have similar preferences: Sugars and fats are perceived positively, whereas a bitter taste is perceived rather negatively.<\/p>\n<p>In order to be able to make such evaluations, we need signals in the <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/brain\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">brain<\/a> that tell us \u201cThis is good\u201d or \u201cThis is bad.\u201d The <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/dopaminergic+system\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">dopaminergic system<\/a> in the brain, better known as the reward system, plays an important role in these evaluations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Animals have an innate preference for certain scents and tastes. Attractive scents are linked to things like good food. Less attractive scents\u2014that of spoiled food, for example\u2014instinctively give the animal a signal which says: \u201cThere could be danger here!\u201d When it comes to taste, all animals have similar preferences: Sugars and fats are perceived positively, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}