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06/06/2020 / By Franz Walker

Yes, it’s REAL: Coronavirus patients are losing their sense of smell and taste – and aren’t getting them back

In addition to attacking the lungs, the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) can also rob patients of their sense of smell and taste. Now, as they begin to learn more about the disease, experts warn that these patients could be without these senses for much longer than expected. Healthcare personnel first noticed that COVID-19 patients were losing their ability to […]

11/15/2019 / By Edsel Cook

The science behind “familiar smells:” How odors affect memory formation in the brain

The processes by which the brain learns new things and stores memories respond to input from the senses. German researchers have recently reported that scent processing might affect the brain’s memory centers. Their study covered the piriform cortex. This region of the olfactory brain interprets smells picked up by the nose’s olfactory receptors. The Ruhr Universitat Bochum […]

09/09/2019 / By Evangelyn Rodriguez

Craving sugar? It could be caused by lack of sleep

According to a growing body of evidence, sleep not only influences mood and energy levels, it also affects chemosensory function. This function is responsible for a person’s ability to taste and smell. Because males and females have different average sleep duration and neural responses to chemosensory function, researchers from Michigan State University hypothesized that the […]

08/26/2019 / By Melissa Smith

Here’s the science on why you’re a mosquito magnet (plus some natural ways to keep them at bay)

Female mosquitoes rely on sensory information to find their food source – human blood. They pick up on body odor, carbon dioxide, heat, moisture, and visual cues. A new study published in the journal Current Biology now discovered that a specific odor receptor in their antennae also serves as a detector of humans, picking up […]

03/20/2019 / By Amy Goodrich

A woman’s sense of smell is so sensitive it can sniff out cancer

The 53-year-old perfume entrepreneur Jo Malone — who created the eponymous brand that was sold to the cosmetics giant Estée Lauder in 1999 — can detect cancer just by using her nose. Just like a sniffer dog, she can recognize cancer by smelling subtle changes in chemicals. Her heightened sense of smell was discovered after […]

11/27/2017 / By Michelle Simmons

The newest device for weight loss is a nose plug: Recent studies have found a connection between the smell of food and weight gain

People trying to lose weight may have tried different weight loss equipment such as the treadmill, ab roller machine, and the ever-classic gym ball. Nevertheless, new research suggests that using nose plugs instead to block the smell of food may help you lose weight. Researchers at the University of California in Berkeley conducted an experiment […]

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