Brain mechanisms of memory
Basic brain circuit of taste learning: prefrontal cortex, insular cortex, perirhinal cortex, accumbens nucleus, hippocampus, amygdala and thalamus.
Aging, and cognitive function restoration.
Ontogeny of learning: effect of diet and early experience on adult learning abilities.
Publications
Vázquez-Ágredos, A., Rovira, P., Gutiérrez, B., Gámiz, F., & Gallo, M. (2024). Identification of Differentially Expressed MicroRNAs in the Rat Hippocampus during Adolescence through an Epigenome-Wide Analysis. Developmental Neuroscience, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1159/000538168
Vázquez-Ágredos, A., Valero, M., Aparicio-Mescua, T., García-Rodríguez, R., Gámiz, F., & Gallo, M. (2024). Adolescent alcohol exposure modifies adult anxiety-like behavior and amygdala sensitivity to alcohol in rats: Increased c-Fos activity and sex-dependent microRNA-182 expression. Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior, 238. 173741. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pbb.2024.173741
Cerdo, T., Ruiz-Rodriguez, A., Acuna, I., Torres-Espinola, FJ.; Menchén-Márquez, S., Gámiz, F., Gallo, M.,…; Suárez, A. (2023) Infant gut microbiota contributes to cognitive performance in mice. Cell Host & Microbe, 31(12): 1974-1988. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chom.2023.11.004
Expósito, AN., Vázquez-Ágredos, A., Menchén, S., Gámiz, F. and Gallo M. (2023) Taste Neophobia, Latent Inhibition of Taste Aversion and Object Recognition Memory in Adolescent Rats. Psycothema, 35(4): 423-431. https://doi.org/10.7334/psicothema2022.256
Gallo M. and Gámiz, F. (2023) Choline: An Essential Nutrient for Human Health. Nutrients, 15(13):2900. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu15132900
Vázquez-Ágredos, A. Gámiz, F. and Gallo M. (2022) MicroRNA Regulation of the Environmental Impact on Adolescent Neurobehavioral Development: A Systematic Review. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, 16,956609. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fncel.2022.956609/full
Gámiz, F. and Gallo M. (2021) A Systematic Review of the Dietary Choline Impact on Cognition from a Psychobiological Approach: Insights from Animal Studies. Nutrients, 13(6), 1966. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu13061966
Grau-Perales, AB. Gámiz, F. and Gallo M. (2021) Effect of hippocampal 6-OHDA lesions on the contextual modulation of taste recognition memory. Behav. Brain Res., 409:113320. http://sl.ugr.es/0csE .
Expósito, AN., Morillas, E., Gómez-Chacón, B. and Gallo, M. (2020) Prefrontal cortex activity patterns during taste neophobia habituation in adult and aged rats. Behav. Brain Res., 392:112717. http://sl.ugr.es/0csG
Grau-Perales, AB., Expósito, AN., Gómez-Chacón, B., Morón, I. and Gallo, M. (2020) Accumbens nucleus and amygdala in taste recognition memory: the role of D1 dopamine receptors. Neurobiol Learn Mem., 174:1072777 http://sl.ugr.es/0csF
Grau-Perales, AB. and Gallo, M. (2020) The auditory context-dependent attenuation of taste neophobia depends on D1 dopamine receptor activity in mice. Behav. Brain Res., 391:112687. http://sl.ugr.es/0csH
Grau-Perales, A., Navarro-Expósito, A., Gómez-Chacón, B., Morón, I. and Gallo, M. (2020) Taste recognition memory engages a dopaminergic accumbens – amygdala network: role of D1 dopamine receptors. Chemical Senses, Meeting Abstract, 45(2) 123-124. http://sl.ugr.es/0csD
De Pretto M., Hartmann L, Garcia-Burgos D., Sallard E, Spierer L. (2019) Stimulus reward value interacts with training-induced plasticity in inhibitory control. Neuroscience. 421:82-94. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroscience.2019.10.010
Grau-Perales, AB., Gómez-Chacón, B. and Gallo, M. (2019) Differential activity pattern of c-Fos in the nucleus accumbens between adult and aged rats during flavor recognition memory. Behav. Brain Res., 371:111935. http://sl.ugr.es/0csI
Grau-Perales AB, Levy ERJ, Fenton AA, Gallo M (2019) Dorsal hippocampal damage disrupts the auditory context-dependent attenuation of taste neophobia in mice. Neurobiol Learn Mem 157:121–127. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2018.12.009
Donaire R., Morón I., Blanco S, Villatoro A., Gámiz F., Papini MR., Torres C. (2019) Lateral habenula lesions disrupt appetitive extinction, but do not affect voluntary alcohol consumption. Neurosci Lett. 703:184-190. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neulet.2019.03.044 .
Garcia-Burgos, D., Wilhelm, P., Vögele, C., & Munsch, S. (2019). Food avoidance versus food aversion in restrictive eating disorders. Zeitschrift fur Psychiatrie, Psychologie und Psychotherapie, 67(1), 30-38. https://doi.org/ 10.1024/1661-4747/a000369
Luisier, A. C., Petitpierre, G., Clerc Bérod, A., Garcia-Burgos, D., & Bensafi, M. (2018). Effects of familiarization on odor hedonic responses and food choices in children with autism spectrum disorders. Autism, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1177/1362361318815252
Stülb, K., Messerli-Bürgy, N., Kakebeeke, T. H., Arhab, A., Zysset, A. E., Leeger-Aschmann, C. S., García-Burgos, D.,... & Kriemler, S. (2018). Age-Adapted Stress Task in Preschoolers Does not Lead to Uniform Stress Responses. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 47, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-018-0475-x
Grau-Perales A, Gómez-Chacón B, Morillas E, Gallo M (2019) Flavor recognition memory related activity of the posterior piriform cortex in adult and aged rats. Behav Brain Res. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2018.12.016 .
Garcia-Burgos, D., Maglieri, S., Vögelec, C., & Munsch, S. (2018). How does food taste in anorexia and bulimia nervosa? A prolotocol for a quasi-experimental, cross-sectional design to investigate taste aversion/increased hedonic valence of food in eating disorders. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 264-275. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00264
Bianchi, L. L., Galmarini, M. V., García-Burgos, D., & Zamora, M. C. (2018). Time-intensity and reaction-time methodology applied to the dynamic perception and liking of bitterness in relation to body mass index. Food Research International, 109, 606-613. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodres.2018.05.011
Humbel, N., Messerli-Bürgy, N., Schuck, K., Wyssen, A., Garcia-Burgos, D... (2018). Self-reported emotion regulation difficulties are associated with mood but not with the biological stress response to thin ideal exposure. PloS One 13 (6), e0199769. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0199769
Messerli-Bürgy, N., Stülb, K., Kakebeeke, TH., Arhab, A. García-Burgos, D.… (2018). Emotional eating is related with temperament but not with stress biomarkers in preschool children. Appetite,120, 256-264. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2017.08.032
Colomina, MA, Sánchez-Santed, F., Conejo, MN, Collado, P., Salvador, A., Gallo, M., Pinos, H., Salas, C., Navarro, JF., Adán, A., Azpiroz, A. (2018) The Psychoexposome: A holistic perspective beyond health and disease. Psicothema, 30(1) 5-7. http://www.psicothema.com/pdf/4442.pdf
Gallo, M. (2018). Taste Neophobia over the Life Span. (Chapter 3): In: S. Reilly (Ed) Food Neophobia. Behavioral and Biological Influences. Elsevier: San Diego, pp 25-41 ISBN: 9780081019313. Full text: https://bit.ly/2Ou7s9S
Menchén-Márquez, S. y Gallo, M. (2018). La neofobia y su atenuación: relación entre el sistema gustativo y la memoria de reconocimiento en roedores. En: B. Gómez Chacón, M. Tejada (Eds). Encuentros en Neurociencias V, 2018, 235- 248. SIDER: Granada (Spain) ISBN: 978-84-943468-0-4. Full text: http://sl.ugr.es/EncuenNeurocienciasV
Gómez-Chacón, B.. y Gallo, M. Modificaciones de la memoria asociadas a la edad: el caso de los “super-ancianos”. En: B. Gómez Chacón, M. Tejada (Eds). Encuentros en Neurociencias V, 2018, 207-234. SIDER: Granada (Spain) ISBN: 978-84-943468-0-4. Full text: http://sl.ugr.es/EncuenNeurocienciasV
García-Rojo G, Gámiz F, Ampuero E, Rojas-Espina D, Sandoval R, Rozas C, Morales B, Wyneken U, Pancetti F. (2017) In Vivo Sub-chronic Treatment with Dichlorvos in Young Rats Promotes Synaptic Plasticity and Learning by a Mechanism that Involves Acylpeptide Hydrolase Instead of Acetylcholinesterase Inhibition. Correlation with Endogenous β-Amyloid Levels. Front Pharmacol. 8:483. https://doi.org/10.3389/fphar.2017.00483 . Full text: https://bit.ly/2Vlk3h7
Morillas E, Gómez-Chacón B, Gallo M. (2017). Flavor and object recognition memory impairment induced by excitotoxic lesions of the perirhinal cortex. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 144:230-234. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2017.08.002 .
Garcia-Burgos, D., Lao, J., Munsch, & S. Caldara, R.(2017). Visual attention to food cues is differentially modulated by gustatory-hedonic and post-ingestive attributes. Food Research International, 97, 199–208. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodres.2017.04.011
Grau-Perales A, Gallo M. (2017). Sistema dopaminérgico mesocorticolímbico y memoria gustativa: Relevancia del núcleo accumbens. En: B. Gómez Chacón, M. Rivera Sánchez, JM Rodríguez Ferrer (Eds). Encuentros en Neurociencias IV, 209-223. EUG: Granada (Spain). ISBN: 978-84-697-8282-8. Full text: sl.ugr.es/EncuenNeurocienciasIV
Gómez-Chacón, B., Gámiz, F., Foster, TC. and Gallo, M. (2016) Título: Increased N-Ethylmaleimide-Sensitive Factor expression in Amygdala and Perirhinal Cortex during habituation of taste neophobia. Neural Plasticity, https://doi.org/10.1155/2016/2726745 . Full text: https://bit.ly/2Vo6ldk .
Rocha-Parra, D., Garcia-Burgos, D., Munsch, S., Chirife, J. & Zamora, M.C. (2016). Application of hedonic dynamics using multiple-sip temporal-liking and facial expression for evaluation of a new beverage. Food Quality and Preference, 52, 153-159. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodqual.2016.04.013
Gallo, M. (2016) Insights on consciousness from taste memory research. (Commentary) Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 39:e178. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X15002083
de la Viña, L., Garcia-Burgos, D., Okan, Y., Cándido, A. & González, F.(2015). Disentangling the effect of valence and arousal on judgments concerning moral transgressions. The Spanish Journal of Psychology, 18, e61, 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1017/sjp.2015.66
Garcia-Burgos, D., Secchiari, F., & Calviño, A. (2015). Is sensory-specific satiety for a bitter-sweet infusion modulated by context? Physiology & Behavior, 140, 180–187. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physbeh.2014.12.035
Gómez-Chacón, B., Morillas, E. and Gallo, M. (2015) Altered perirhinal cortex activity patterns during taste neophobia and their habituation in aged rats. Behavioral Brain Research, 281, 245-249. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2014.12.020 .
Gámiz, F., Recio, S. A., Iliescu, A. F., Gallo, M. and de Brugada, I. (2015) Effects of dietary choline availability on latent inhibition of flavor aversion learning. Nutritional Neuroscience, 18(6) 275-280. https://doi.org/10.1179/1476830514Y.0000000129 . Full text: https://bit.ly/2WVvAAo
Garcia-Burgos, D., & Zamora, M. C. (2015). Exploring the hedonic and incentive properties in preferences for bitter foods via self-reports, facial expressions and instrumental behaviours. Food Quality and Preference, 39, 73-81.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodqual.2014.07.003
Gallo, M., Gamiz, F., Perez-García, M., del Moral, R. and Rolls, E. (2014) Taste and olfactory status in a Gourmand with a right amygdala lesion. Neurocase, 20(4) 421-433. https://doi.org/10.1080/13554794.2013.791862
González, F., Garcia-Burgos, D., & Hall, G. (2014). Analysis of blocking of flavor-preference conditioning based on nutrients and palatable tastes in rats. Appetite, 80, 161-167. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2014.05.010
Gallo, M. (2013) Taste Learning and Memory in Aging. In: The 114th Abbott Nutrition Research Conference (Eds. Judith Gussler and M. Ann Graham) pp. 103-108. 87388/December 2013 LITHO IN USA.
Garcia-Burgos, D., & Zamora, M. C. (2013). Facial affective reactions to bitter-tasting foods and body mass index in adults. Appetite, 71, 178-186. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2013.08.013
Gómez-Chacón, B. and Gallo, M. (2013) Memoria de reconocimiento visual y gustativo: comparación entre procesos y mecanismos. In: F. Gámiz, M. Gallo and F. Vives. Encuentros en Neurociencias. Volumen II. Ed. Ciber S.C. ISBN: 978-84-96876-7 pp. 121-148.. Full text in http://hdl.handle.net/10481/20289
Moreno Fernández, RD, Pedraza, C. y Gallo, M. (2013) Neurogénesis hipocampal adulta y envejecimiento cognitivo. Escritos de Psicología (Psychological Writings), 6(3) 14-24. Full text: https://bit.ly/2W8s8CW
Moreno Gudiño, H., De Brugada, I., Carias, D and Gallo, M. (2013) Long-lasting Effects of Prenatal Dietary Choline Availability on Object Recognition Memory ability in adult rats. Nutritional Neuroscience, 16(6) 269-274. https://doi.org/10.1179/1476830513Y.0000000055
Morillas, E., Gámiz, F. and Gallo, M. (2013) Neuroanatomía funcional de la memoria de reconocimiento visual y gustativa. In: Gámiz, F. , Gallo, M. and Vives, F. Encuentros en Neurociencias. Volumen II. Ed. Ciber S.C. ISBN: 978-84-96876-7 pp. 149-180. Full text in http://hdl.handle.net/10481/20289
Rohlfs Domínguez, P, Gámiz, F, Gil, M., Moreno, H., Márquez Zamora, R., Gallo, M., de Brugada, I. (2013) Providing choice increases children's vegetable intake. Food Quality and Preference, 30, 108-113. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodqual.2013.05.006 Full text: https://bit.ly/2Iw0RG0
Souza-Moreira, L., Morrell, M., Delgado-Maroto, V., Pedreño, M., Martínez-Escudero, L., Caro, M., O´Valle, F., Luque, R., Gallo, M., de Lecea, L., Castaño, J.P., González-Rey, E. (2013) Paradoxical effect of corticostatin treatment and its deficiency on experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis. Journal of Immunology, 191(5) 2144-2154. https://doi.org/10.4049/jimmunol.1300384 . Full text: https://bit.ly/2vq366B
Gallo, M. and Rolls, E. (2012) Chemosensory Learning and Memory. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 6, 73. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnsys.2012.00073 . Full text: https://bit.ly/2DDqtye
Gámiz, F. and Gallo, M. (2012) Spontaneous object recognition memory in aged rats: complexity versus similarity. Learning and Memory, 19, 444-448. https://doi.org/10.1101/lm.027003.112 . Full text: https://bit.ly/2UNqHZ5
Garcia-Burgos, D., González, F., & Hall, G. (2012). Motivational control of latent inhibition in flavor preference conditioning. Behavioural Processes, 98, 9-17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2013.04.010
González, F., Garcia-Burgos, D., & Hall, G. (2012). Associative and occasion-setting properties of contextual cues in flavor–nutrient learning in rats. Appetite, 59, 898–904. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2012.09.004
Garcia-Burgos, D., & González, F. (2012). Posttraining flavor exposure in hungry rats after simultaneous conditioning with a nutrient converts the CS into a conditioned inhibitor. Learning & Behavior, 40, 98-114. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2013.04.010
Gómez-Chacón, B., Gámiz, F. and Gallo, M. (2012) Basolateral amygdala lesions attenuate safe taste memory-related c-fos expression in the rat perirhinal cortex. Behavioral Brain Research, 230(2) 418-422. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2012.02.038 . Full text: https://bit.ly/2WYC1aJ
Moreno, H.C., Gil, M., Carias, D., Gallo, M. and Brugada, I. (2012) Choline dietary supplementation improves LiCl-induced context aversion retention in adult rats. Physiology and Behavior, 106(4) 451-456. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physbeh.2012.03.003 .
Díaz, A., García-Burgos, D., Manrique, T., González, F., and Gallo, M. (2011) Intermittent voluntary ethanol drinking during periadolescence impairs adult spatial learning after a long abstinence period in rats. Psicologica, 32, 347- 365. Full text: https://bit.ly/2ZGNdqi
Díaz, A., Garcia-Burgos, D., Manrique, T., González, F., & Gallo, M. (2011). Intermittent voluntary ethanol drinking during periadolescence impairs adult spatial learning after a long abstinence period in rats. Psicologica, 32, 347-365. Full text: https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ954712.pdf
Gámiz, F. and Gallo, M. (2011) Taste learning and memory: a window on the study of brain aging. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 5, 91-97. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnsys.2011.00091 . Full text: https://bit.ly/2WdSC5W
Gámiz, F. and Gallo, M. (2011) Intra-amygdala ZIP injections impair the memory of learned active avoidance responses and attenuate conditioned taste aversion acquisition in rats. Learning and Memory, 18(8) 529-533. https://doi.org/10.1101/lm.2253311 . Full text: https://bit.ly/2GPvgOO
Gámiz, F. and Gallo, M. (2011) PKMζ y el mantenimiento de la memoria a largo plazo. In: L. Jiménez Díaz and JD. Navarro-López (Eds) Encuentros en Neurociencias, Vol I, 1, 199-236. Ed. Lulu Enterprises, Inc. ISBN: 978-1-4461-2634-9.
González, F., Garcia-Burgos, D., Brugada, I., & Gil, M. (2010). Learned preference for a hedonically negative flavor is observed after pairings with positive post-ingestion consequences rather than with a palatable flavor. Learning and Motivation, 41, 141-149. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lmot.2010.01.004
Garcia-Burgos, D., Manrique, T., Gallo, M. & González, F. (2010). Diferencias sexuales en el efecto de privación alcohólica en ratas (Sexual differences in the alcohol deprivation effect in rats). Psicothema, 22, 887-892. http://www.psicothema.com/psicothema.asp?id=3816
Garcia-Burgos, D., González, F., Manrique, T., & Gallo, M. (2009). Patterns of ethanol intake in preadolescent, adolescent, and adult Wistar rats under acquisition, maintenance, and relapse-like conditions. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 33, 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1530-0277.2008.00889.x
Garcia-Burgos, D., Gámiz, F., Díaz, A., Manrique, T. & Gallo, M. (2006). PN64 Wistar rats behave as adolescents concerning the temporal modulation of taste learning. Chemical Senses, 31, E1.
Rivas García, F., Giménez Martínez, R., & Garcia-Burgos, D. (2005). Efectos neurológicos del consumo de alcohol en adolescentse (Neurological effects of alcohol consumption in adolescents). Nutrición Hospitalaria, XX (1), 61.