Consortium that was recently published in JAMA Network Open revealed that many folks who catch and survive COVID-19 have an ...

Olfactory training—based on repeated exposure to different scents—has proven effective in improving and even restoring the ...

The sprawling network of the visual cortex reigned supreme in the field of sensory processing, contributing significantly to our understanding of sensory perception. In contrast, the study of ...

Sensory deprivation causes changes in new cell size and excitability in the olfactory system, which governs the ability to smell, according to a study in Neuron by a Yale School of Medicine researcher ...

Scientists uncover “smell maps” showing how neurons process odours efficientlyFly olfactory system uses paired neurons to ...

Walking around my neighborhood in the evening, I am hit by the smells of summer: fresh-cut grass, hamburgers grilling and a hint of swimming pool chlorine. These are also the smells of summers from my ...

Nine out of ten patients with Parkinson’s disease suffer from defects of the sense of smell in the early stages of the disease - often years before the appearance of the motor symptoms that are ...

Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) researchers have discovered that pheromones essential for mating behavior in mice are recognized by the nose and not by the vomeronasal system, as researchers ...

When insects search for food, a sexual mate or the ideal place for laying eggs – somewhere where the hatching larvae have a good chance to survive – they have to rely on their sense of smell. They use ...

Given this brief introduction to the olfactory system, the two development schemes cited above would suggest very different developmental routes. While the protomap theory predicts a simultaneous and ...