Your nose’s superpower is thanks to a “superhighway” that leads directly into your brain. The olfactory system runs straight to the hippocampus, or your memory hub, whereas other sensory systems have ...

There are certain smells that conjure a specific time or place for me. That scent that comes with an electrical storm takes me to the New Hampshire lake where I used to spend summers as a child. The ...

Rose Garden in Nakanoshima, Osaka, Japan. Every other Friday, the Outside/In team answers one listener question about the natural world. This has been edited for length and clarity. Justine Paradis: ...

Searching for new ways to help my senior patients improve and maintain cognitive functions, I came across an interesting research study from the University of California Irvine (Woo, C. et al. 2023) ...

There are many ways to boost brain power, from exercising more often to learning new skills. But what about boosting the actual size of your brain? According to a new study, wearing the right kind of ...

Traditionally, we humans have five senses - they're smell, hearing, vision, touch and taste. But only two of these senses are based on chemicals - smell and taste. Smell and taste let us sample the ...

Michael Schmuker receives funding from NSF/CIHR/DFG/FRQ/UKRI-MRC as a member of the Next Generation Networks for Neuroscience Program (NeuroNex), within the ...

New research appears to show the damaging effects of COVID on the brain, including areas associated with smell and memory. The findings could reveal the effects of COVID in greater detail and how the ...

TORONTO ― The University of Pennsylvania Smell Identification Test (UPSIT) has potential as an inexpensive, noninvasive test to help diagnose Alzheimer's disease, a new study shows. In a study of ...

Walking by a park, the smell of fresh-cut grass instantly transports me back to the relaxed, carefree Saturdays of my childhood. I’m overcome by nostalgia as I recall the countless weekend mornings ...