Hagfish olfactory genes hint at ancient origins of vertebrate sense of smell

Researchers at University of Tsukuba and their collaborators have conducted a comprehensive analysis of the olfactory ...
ABC News

How does COVID-19 cause people to lose sense of smell? And how many regain it?

Some studies suggest up to 96% of COVID patients are affected. Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, perhaps no symptom has been in the spotlight more than loss of smell. Estimates vary, but it's ...
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Fossil skulls reveal how well extinct mammals could smell

We rely on smell more than most people may realize. Across mammals, scent guides feeding, warns of danger, and shapes social ...
Forbes

Losing the Sense of Smell: How Covid-19 Infection Induces Long-Lasting Symptoms

An illustration of the olfactory bulb and epithelium. Top right: A pericyte (light orange) wraps around a blood vessel (red). Bottom right: Olfactory sensory neurons (light red, orange) surrounded by ...
C&EN

How COVID-19 stole our sense of smell

It’s been over 2 years since the pandemic began, and COVID-19 still dominates small talk. Sharing personal experiences with the disease was also how the conversation started when Christine Kelly, who ...
Medscape

Decrease in Sense of Smell Seen in Lupus Patients

The sense of smell is a complex process of the central nervous system that involves specific areas of the brain. In fact, olfactory dysfunction is seen in various central nervous system disorders that ...
Kaleido Scope

Smell training is brain training, parosmia success — and five other insights from a new UAB clinic

Since the beginning of the pandemic, at least 500,000 Alabamians have experienced extended smell and taste loss, says Do-Yeon Cho, M.D., director of the Comprehensive Smell and Taste Clinic and an ...
Yahoo

Human sense of smell is faster than previously thought, new study suggests

A new study demonstrates that your sense of smell may be more sensitive than previously thought. Your nose may be more powerful than you think. In a single sniff, the human sense of smell can ...
Juneau Empire

On the Trails: Birds’ sense of smell

A long-standing myth says that birds have no (or very little) sense of smell (olfaction). Myths usually have long lives, and this one became dogma despite many casual observations suggesting that ...
The Atlantic

The Sense of Smell

IT is remarkable how intimate the sense of smell is, how much it tells us, and how largely it affects consciousness on the one hand, and how we scorn consideration of it on the other. It is the ...

This Hack to Your Brain’s ‘Superhighway’ Boosts Memory By Over 200 Percent—And May Even Prevent Alzheimer’s

Your nose’s superpower is thanks to a “superhighway” that leads directly into your brain. The olfactory system runs straight to the hippocampus, or your memory hub, whereas other sensory systems have ...