Linda bartoshuk biography
Linda Bartoshuk
American psychologist (born 1938)
Linda May Bartoshuk (born 1938)[1] is an American psychologist. She is a Presidential Endowed Professor of Community Dentistry and Behavioral Science at the University of Florida.[2] She is an internationally known researcher specializing in the chemical senses of taste and smell, having discovered that some people are supertasters.[3]
Biography
Bartoshuk grew up in Aberdeen, South Dakota.[4] She received her B.A. from Carleton College and her PhD from Brown University.[5]
Her research explores the genetic variations in taste perception and how taste perception affects overall health. Bartoshuk was the first to discover that burning mouth syndrome, a condition predominantly experienced by postmenopausal women, is caused by damage to the taste buds at the front of the tongue and is not a psychosomatic condition. She was employed at Yale University prior to accepting a Linda bartoshuk supertasters!