This important study partially fills the gap in the knowledge of olfaction at the level of the Anterior Olfactory Nucleus (AON) and Piriform Cortex with functional magnetic resonance imaging, ...

People can be born with no sense of smell, a condition called anosmia, or they can acquire it, as has been the case with many ...

"For comparison, the duration of an eye blink is about 180 milliseconds," Zhou added."Our apparatus could be used for therapeutic purposes, such as olfactory training for patients with olfactory loss, ...

Boogie, a 3.5 year old pup from Durham voted the cutest dog in the Triangle area. Liza Darnell We could all use some photos of a cute dog right now. After taking in dozens of nominations for ...

Following non-odor excitation, we challenged olfactory receptors with zinc nanoparticles which ... to align relative EOG amplitudes with concentrations of odorant and the area under the peak.

The olfactory system is the sensory system that is responsible for the sense of smell (olfaction). It receives, processes and interprets odour information. Our ears are known for their ability to ...

Credit: SciTechDaily.com Researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery that human olfactory perception can detect changes in odors within just a single breath, challenging the previously held view ...

Summary: Human olfactory perception, traditionally viewed as slow, can actually detect rapid changes within a single sniff, as shown by new research. Using a precise sniff-triggered device, ...