Neuroscience
Your mouth helps you smell tasty foods
Why do certain foods smell good to us?
Feb 13, 2019
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Health
High pesticide exposure among farmers linked to poor sense of smell later
A Michigan State University study is the first to show an association between unusually high pesticide exposure and poor sense of smell among aging farmers.
Jan 16, 2019
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Medical research
Why the sense of smell declines in old age
As mammals age, their sense of smell deteriorates. In a study published in the journal Cell Reports, an interdisciplinary research team at Helmholtz Zentrum München and the University Medical Centre Mainz investigated why ...
Dec 20, 2018
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Loss of taste? The problem's probably up your nose
When patients report losing their sense of taste, the problem is most likely due to a dysfunction in their sense of smell, according to research from Virginia Commonwealth University's Smell and Taste Disorders Center.
Dec 20, 2018
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Electrical stimulation in the nose induces sense of smell in human subjects
Physicians at Massachusetts Eye and Ear have, for the first time, induced a sense of smell in humans by using electrodes in the nose to stimulate nerves in the olfactory bulb, a structure in the brain where smell information ...
Nov 27, 2018
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Neuroscience
New study finds link between smell and obesity
University of Otago researchers have broken new ground by identifying a link between smell and obesity. The findings will be published today in the international Obesity Reviews journal.
Nov 19, 2018
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Is there a universal hierarchy of human senses?
Research at the University of York has shown that the accepted hierarchy of human senses—sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell—is not universally true across all cultures.
Nov 5, 2018
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Phantosmia—when you smell smells that aren't there
Have you ever smelled odours other people can't smell? If you have, you may have experienced phantosmia – the medical name for a smell hallucination.
Oct 2, 2018
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Neuroscience
What's that smell? Scientists find a new way to understand odors
Every smell, from a rose to a smoky fire to a pungent fish, is composed of a mixture of odorant molecules that bind to protein receptors inside your nose. But scientists have struggled to understand exactly what makes each ...
Aug 29, 2018
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Neuroscience
Scientists uncover new details in how sense of smell develops
Dogs, known for their extraordinarily keen senses of smell, can be trained to use their sensitive sniffers to find drugs, bombs, bed bugs, missing hikers and even cancer. Among dogs and other animals that rely on smell, at ...
Aug 10, 2018
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