Medical research
Can 'smell' trigger tumors?
How tumors emerge has always been quite a conundrum in the scientific community.
May 25, 2022
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Neuroscience
Researchers reveal how the volumes of brain regions change in Parkinson's disease
A team of researchers from Forschungszentrum Jülich, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf and Ernst-von-Bergmann Klinikum Potsdam analyzed the changes of brain volumes in 37 Parkinson's patients and 27 controls at up to ...
May 17, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Why do my dogs smell like orange slices? The latest research on how COVID messes with smell
Loss of smell and taste was a distinguishing feature of early COVID-19.
Apr 25, 2022
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Medical research
Researchers map mouse olfactory glomeruli using state-of-the-art techniques
Detecting odors and differentiating between them is an essential ability that helps animals to survive and interact more effectively with their surrounding environment. In mammals, odors are known to be initially processed ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Inflammation caused by COVID-19, rather than the virus itself, may lead to loss of smell
Anosmia, the loss of smell, is a frequent and often long-term symptom associated with COVID-19 that can severely burden a person's quality of life, making it extremely difficult to taste foods, detect airborne hazards in ...
Apr 11, 2022
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Neuroscience
Researchers discover brand-new brain pathway to fear
Florida State University researchers have identified a new pathway in the brain that plays an important role in our response to fear.
Mar 24, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
How does COVID-19 affect people's ability to smell
A decreased or altered sense of smell—called olfactory dysfunction—is a common symptom experienced by individuals with COVID-19. As described in an article published in The Laryngoscope, researchers recently searched ...
Mar 23, 2022
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Neuroscience
Human olfactory mucosa cell model opens a new perspective on Alzheimer's disease
Researchers at the University of Eastern Finland have developed and characterized a new cell model for Alzheimer's disease that has wide utility for research and could prove useful in early diagnosis and testing of new therapies. ...
Feb 15, 2022
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Neuroscience
Olfactory processing in three distinct neural waves
Neural waves of three distinct registers combine to give the brain a picture of what's being smelled, according to a Northwestern Medicine study published in PLOS Biology.
Feb 3, 2022
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Immunology
Macrophages in the artery wall 'smell' their surroundings
An artery is not like a nose. Or is it?
Jan 13, 2022
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