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Food Neuroscience Lab
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A neuroscience lab that explores the brain mechanisms that give rise to appetite and food preferences.
AboutAbout the lab
Exploring the brain mechanisms behind food preferences
The Food Neuroscience Lab works within shokurigaku, the study of the relationship between food and the body, and aims to uncover the neural mechanisms that give rise to appetite and food preferences.
Using methods from neuroscience, the lab studies how the brain senses food factors such as nutrients, taste substances, and odor substances.
In mice, the lab manipulates and measures the activity of specific neurons using methods such as optogenetics, and conducts behavioral tests that evaluate appetite and food preferences.
It is a new lab that began accepting students in 2024.
Key terms
- Shokurigaku (food physiology)
- A term for the "physiology of food," which clarifies the relationship between food and the body, just as pharmacology studies the relationship between drugs and the body.
- Optogenetics
- A method that uses light-responsive ion channels to artificially activate or suppress the activity of specific neurons.
- Food preference
- The kinds of food a person or animal likes. It changes with experience and physical condition.
ResearchResearch themes
Much remains scientifically unknown about how food preferences change with experience, physical condition, and mental state, and about what makes food taste good. The lab aims to uncover the neural mechanisms of everyday food choice and to clarify how external and internal factors affect those mechanisms.
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The members of the Food Neuroscience Lab are faculty members, a Project Assistant Professor, doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students, and an administrative assistant.As of 2026
- ProfessorKen-ichiro Nakajima
- Assistant ProfessorKazuki Shiotani
- Project Assistant ProfessorNawarat Rattanajearakul
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