| Linda May Bartoshuk | |
| Birth Place: | Aberdeen, South Dakota |
| Citizenship: | United States |
| Fields: | Psychology, Taste, Smell |
| Workplaces: | University of Florida |
| Alma Mater: | Carleton College Brown University |
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| Known For: | Supertaster Burning Mouth Syndrome |
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Linda May Bartoshuk (born 1938) is an American psychologist. She is a Presidential Endowed Professor of Community Dentistry and Behavioral Science at the University of Florida.[1] She is an internationally known researcher specializing in the chemical senses of taste and smell, having discovered that some people are supertasters.[2]
Bartoshuk grew up in Aberdeen, South Dakota. She received her B.A. from Carleton College and her PhD from Brown University.[3]
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 position at the University of Florida in 2005. Bartoshuk's work at Yale was funded through a series of NIH grants.[4]
She was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1995.[5] In 2003, she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.[6]