MRI brain scans help explain human attraction to fatty foods

A team of neuroscientists and physiologists at the University of Cambridge, working with a pair of colleagues from the Wellcome Trust-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, has found that MRI scans can reveal the parts of the brain that are involved in responding to fatty foods. In their paper published in The Journal of Neuroscience, the group describes how they tested milkshakes with different amounts of fat, then asked volunteers to taste them while undergoing brain scans, and what they found by doing so.