A special Adurim/Malta Café Scientifique talk titled ‘Flavour in the Brain: The Roots of Neurogastronomy’ is being delivered today in Valletta.

Neurogastronomy takes a multidisciplinary approach to food. Roots of neurogastronomy go way back to the 19th century when gourmet magistrate Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin anticipated concepts that neuroscientists discovered 100 years later.

“Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are” said Brillat-Savarin.

These enlightenments paved the way for our understanding of cerebral phenomena that mediate the experience of “flavour”.

Neurogastronomy looks at flavour from a different angle and considers how those chemicals are interpreted in the brain as well as how they influence brain regions that control emotion, memories, food preferences, cravings and appetite.

The talk will be delivered by Fiorenzo Conti, the president of the Italian Society of Neuroscience.

■ The event is being held today at the Italian Cultural Institute in Valletta at 6.30pm. The talk is organised by the Malta Neuroscience Network, University of Malta, the Italian Cultural Institute, RIDT and the Malta Chamber of Science, within the second edition of the Malta Brain Awareness Week.

Admission is free.

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