Man’s brain incurs disgusting loss
By Bruce Bower
After a stroke damaged parts of his brain, a 25-year-old man lost much of his ability to
experience disgust, according to a report in the November Nature Neuroscience. The specific
brain areas damaged in the stroke process all sorts of sensory and social cues for disgust, contends
a team led by neuroscientist Andrew J. Calder of the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge, England.
Prior studies had implicated these brain areas, the insula and putamen, only in perceiving