Can stimulating the sense of smell be beneficial for the brain?

These effects are based on brain plasticity — the brain’s ability to reshape itself in response to experiences and learning.
Psychology Today

The Nose-Brain Axis: How Smell Shapes Mood and Memory

Your nose has its own microbiome, and it has a major impact on your brain. Here are some tips for keeping it in good shape to ...

There’s a ‘Superhighway’ to Your Memory. This Is How You Can Hack It—And Fortify Your Brain.

Research increasingly suggests that smell could play a role in memory retention—and you may be able to leverage the sense to ...
unr.edu

Benjamin Young: Philosophical analysis of the role olfaction plays in our sense of self

Benjamin D. Young, Ph.D., is an associate professor in philosophy, a member of the graduate faculty in interdisciplinary neuroscience, and the Institute for Neuroscience at the University of Nevada, ...
Labroots

The Nose Knows Not: Uncovering the Quirks of Our Underpowered Olfactory System

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 ...
Science News

COVID-19 gave new urgency to the science of restoring smell

It was the juice that tipped him off. At lunch, Ícaro de A.T. Pires found the flavor of his grape juice muted, flattened into just water with sugar. There was no grape goodness. “I stopped eating ...
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 ...
News Medical

COVID-19 and loss of sense of smell

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). One of the symptoms of COVID-19 is olfactory dysfunction, which is the reduced or ...