However, as someone with sensory issues, she also uses pen chewing as a “sensory-seeking behavior”. Activity that stimulates ...

It is immediately clear from Kolta and Falardeau's review that chewing is indeed a very complex process. It starts with receptors in the mouth gathering sensory information about the piece of food.

US researchers have found an astonishingly simple brain circuit of just three types of neurons controls chewing motions in ...

Strikingly, inhibiting these so-called BDNF neurons not only leads animals to consume more food but also triggers the jaw to make chewing motions even in the absence of food or other sensory input ...