You can train your nose—and four other surprising facts about your sense of smell
Would you give up your sense of smell to keep your hair? What about your phone?
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Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms: News and Research on Olfaction Disorders
MeSH tree: C23.888.592.763.550
Vaccination does not impact long COVID neurological symptoms
Vaccination prior to COVID-19 infection does not significantly affect neurological symptoms in patients with postacute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection, according to a study published online Jan. 7 in Brain Communications.
Jan 15, 2025
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People with no sense of smell found to have abnormal breathing patterns
A team of neuroscientists at The Azrieli National Institute for Human Brain Imaging and Research, in Israel, has found that people who have lost the ability to smell have slightly different breathing patterns than those with ...
Four years on, what is the SCENTinel screening tool is teaching us about smell disorders?
First, there was SCENTinel 1.0, then 1.1, and now 2.1—the different iterations of the rapid screening tool for detecting new-onset loss of smell developed by scientists at the Monell Chemical Senses Center. Since its launch ...
Aug 21, 2024
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Novel molecular imaging tool objectively measures and diagnoses smell disorders
A new fluorescent imaging probe can for the first time objectively and non-invasively measure loss of smell, clinically known as anosmia. Targeting the olfactory nerve, the new tool has potential to eliminate biopsies used ...
Aug 20, 2024
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Study discovers connection between between heart and brain in KBG syndrome
A new study sheds light on a medical question scientists have long wondered: why do 40% of children with the rare neurodevelopmental disorder KBG syndrome have heart defects? The research now points to a critical link between ...
Jul 2, 2024
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Engaging with patients for better treatments and outcomes for smell and taste disorders
Researchers and patient advocates from the Monell Chemical Senses Center, Smell and Taste Association of North America (STANA), and Thomas Jefferson University came together during the COVID-19 pandemic to incorporate patient ...
Jun 11, 2024
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Study finds social interactions and olfactory cues prompt contagious itch in mice
Humans and other mammals can sometimes experience itch, an uncomfortable sensation that prompts them to scratch specific parts of their bodies. Past studies on humans and other primates have found that itch can sometimes ...
Dangers of smell impairment highlighted in new research
More than a third of people who self-identify as having a smell disorder have had at least one gas safety scare in the last five years, according to new research published in the European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology, ...
Mar 11, 2024
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Researchers seek to ensure that people retain their ability to detect scents
A decade ago, in a field of orange trees in southern Greece, Stéphane Tawil realized that he had lost his sense of smell—completely.
Mar 5, 2024
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