Neuroscience
Worms learn to smell danger
Worms can learn. And the ways they learn and respond to danger could lead scientists to new treatments for people with neurodegenerative diseases.
Oct 17, 2017
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News tagged with odorants
Neuroscience
New smell test could aid early detection of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's
Nisha Pradhan was seven when she began to suspect she was missing out on something. Her sister seemed to have an uncanny knack for predicting what their mother was making for dinner. Pradhan, meanwhile, never had a clue.
Oct 11, 2017
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Neuroscience
Early odor exposure enhances response of smell cells
Mice exposed to scents of mint or fresh cut grass before and shortly after birth show increased responses in a specific population of odor-processing neurons to a variety of odors, according to new research published in eNeuro. ...
Sep 25, 2017
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Neuroscience
Close or far, how smell tells us it's popcorn
People know a smell is popcorn whether it is cooking down the hallway or held right under their noses. Yale researchers Douglas Storace and Lawrence Cohen in the Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology have found ...
Jul 20, 2017
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Neuroscience
New insights into how the human brain processes scent
Theta oscillations, a type of rhythmic electrical activity that waxes and wanes four to eight times per second, may play a fundamental role in processing scent in the human brain, according to a new study recently published ...
Jun 6, 2017
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Medical research
Double-blind study suggests humans have olfactory defense against contagious disease
(Medical Xpress)—A European team of researchers working at Sweden's Karolinska Institutet has found evidence that suggests that humans have an olfactory defense against contagious diseases. In their paper published in Proceedings ...
Neuroscience
Researchers discover mechanism behind rapid smell source localization
Scientists at NERF (VIB-KU Leuven-imec) have provided fundamental insights into the mechanism of smell localization. This marks an important step in unraveling the entire neural odor localization mechanism, which is highly ...
May 22, 2017
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Psychology & Psychiatry
The human sense of smell: It's stronger than we think
When it comes to our sense of smell, we have been led to believe that animals win out over humans: No way can we compete with dogs and rodents, some of the best sniffers in the animal kingdom.
May 11, 2017
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Poor odor identification may be early warning for dementia
Poor performance on a simple odor identification test was associated with a significantly increased risk of developing dementia years later, in a study of more than 2,400 older black and white adults led by Kristine Yaffe, ...
Feb 3, 2017
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Medical research
Study identifies why some people can smell asparagus in urine
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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