Psychology & Psychiatry

No, enjoying a gin and tonic doesn't mean you're a psychopath

I was looking at Facebook one evening last week when my attention was captured by the headline "Gin lovers are all massive psychopaths, according to experts" – a somewhat disconcerting thing to read as I sipped the gin ...

Medical research

The role of bitter receptors in cancer

Bitter taste receptors are not involved in taste perception, they are also found on cancer cells. A team led by Veronika Somoza from the Faculty of Chemistry at the University of Vienna and the German Leibniz Institute for ...

Health

Sense of smell fades with age

Food can be one of those unexpected flash points of late life. Grandma may say she's never hungry or that the only things that taste good are salty foods such as French fries. Grandpa may lose control over his sweet tooth, ...

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