In The BMJ's Christmas edition this week, a study identifies the genetic origin of the ability to smell the strong, characteristic odor in human urine produced after eating asparagus.
Dec 13, 2016
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Pleasant and unpleasant odors are a part of everyone's life, but how do our reactions to smells change when other odors are present? To answer this question, researchers at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute in Japan have ...
Jun 16, 2016
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A new study from the Monell Center, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), and collaborating institutions reports a uniquely identifiable odor signature from mouse models of Alzheimer's disease. The odor signature appears ...
Jan 14, 2016
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Everyday tasks we may regard as "simple" - for example, knowing the difference between the smell of an orange and a pickle - are actually marvels of evolutionary development, the work of eons. A neuroscience team at Cold ...
Jun 4, 2015
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It is widely believed that people are bad at naming odors. This has led researchers to suggest smell representations are simply not accessible to the language centers of the brain. But is this really so? Psychologist Asifa ...
Apr 1, 2015
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What the nose knows is quite amazing, when you think about it. The moment you encounter an awful odor - spoiled milk, say, or the scent of skunk - you reflexively recoil in disgust. Often, too, you take action, quickly disposing ...
Jan 12, 2015
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Scientists from Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany, have found that in fruit flies, the quality and intensity of odors can be mapped in the so-called lateral horn. They have created a spatial map of ...
Dec 16, 2014
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A group of physiologists led by University of Kentucky's Tim McClintock have identified the receptors activated by two odors using a new method that tracks responses to smells in live mice.
Nov 26, 2014
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(Medical Xpress)—Ask someone to describe something they are looking at, and they will offer words that have evolved to describe seen objects, but ask them to describe odors, and they will almost always use comparative words ...
New Weizmann Institute research may bring the idea of sleep learning one step closer to reality. The research, which appeared today in The Journal of Neuroscience, suggests that certain kinds of conditioning applied during ...
Nov 11, 2014
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