While it's true that our sense of smell generally declines with age, it can also signal an early sign of neurodegenerative ...

Researchers Puzzled by a Group of People Missing a Brain Structure to Smell but Are Still Sniffing Odors Comfortably It's ...

A study identifies five women who have a functioning sense of smell despite an apparent lack of olfactory bulbs—the region of the brain that processes odors. Jef Akst was managing editor of The ...

In this detailed study, Cohen and Ben-Shaul characterized Accessory Olfactory Bulb (AOB) cell responses to various conspecific urine samples in female mice across the estrous cycle. The authors found ...

Thinner than a piece of tissue paper and a quarter the size of a US postage stamp, it’s placed on the surface of the animal’s olfactory bulb—the brain’s receiving center for smell.

The odorants are then transformed into spatiotemporal patterns of neural activity in the olfactory bulb and central nervous system, and decoded by the brain to generate a perceptual ‘odour ...

Some of the virus reaches and infects the olfactory bulb, the center in the brain connected to the sense of smell, by flowing up from the mouth to the nose. The research team determined that if ...

Tess Stanley ‘25 fell in love with London during a spring study abroad trip. In the fall, she’ll return as one of just 35 ...