Psychology & Psychiatry
How humans use their sense of smell to find their way
You might say that a sweet tooth turned sixth-year psychology Ph.D. student Clara Raithel onto the human sense of smell.
Oct 30, 2023
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Our sense of smell alters the colors we see, show scientists
Our five senses bombard us with environmental input 24/7. One way our brain makes sense of this abundance of information is by combining information from two or more senses, such as between smells and the smoothness of textures, ...
Oct 6, 2023
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
New research shows Lewy body disease can be detected before symptoms
Lewy body disease is the second most common neurodegenerative disease after Alzheimer's disease. A research group from Lund University has now shown that the disease can be detected before symptoms appear, using a spinal ...
Jul 18, 2023
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Medical research
Scientists discover repair process that fixes damaged hearing cells
University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers have discovered how cells that let us hear can repair themselves after being damaged, an insight that could benefit efforts to treat and prevent hearing loss.
Jul 6, 2023
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Neuroscience
Perceiving the smell of lemon, geranium or eucalyptus: A study on the electrical signals behind human olfaction
What happens in our nose when neurons come in contact with a smell? As the recent COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated, from a medical and scientific point of view our sense of smell is as important as it is little known. Now, ...
Jul 3, 2023
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Neuroscience
Study uncovers mechanism behind loss of smell in Parkinson's patients
Parkinson's disease is an illness well known for its motor symptoms—tremor, stiffness, and slowness of movement. In a new paper published in The Journal of Neuroscience and featured on its cover, researchers at Yale School ...
Apr 21, 2023
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Long COVID smell loss linked to changes in the brain
People living with long COVID who suffer from loss of smell show different patterns of activity in certain regions of the brain, a new study led by UCL researchers has found.
Apr 17, 2023
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Blind people sense their heartbeats better than sighted people, shows study
Blind people are better at sensing their own heartbeats than sighted people, shows a study by researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and Jagiellonian University in Poland. The study indicates that blindness leads ...
Mar 24, 2023
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Neuroscience
How the brain's 'internal compass' works
Scientists have gained new insights into the part of the brain that gives us a sense of direction, by tracking neural activity with the latest advances in brain imaging techniques. The findings shed light on how the brain ...
Mar 22, 2023
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Neuroscience
How the brain encodes warm and cool
Researchers from the Max Delbrück Center have found a region of the brain that is responsible for our perception of temperature when we touch things. The paper, which appears in Nature, reports the discovery of a "thermal ...
Feb 14, 2023
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