Scientists have been investigating how the brain makes decisions by participating in the storage of associations between ...

A better understanding of human smell is emerging as scientists interrogate its fundamental elements: the odor molecules that ...

Phantosmia is a smell disorder that is sometimes linked to neurological conditions like stroke A doctor explains the ...

Olfactory concept cells, important for memory, thus seem to bring together the senses of sight and smell. But this isn’t the only way in which these two senses overlap. What about less obvious ...

This part of the brain handles emotion and memory. That’s why inhaling an aroma can immediately make you think of a person or event from your past . It also explains why a loss of sense of smell ...

If hearing an old song or getting a whiff of freshly sharpened pencils instantly carries you back to high school, you’re familiar with the link between your senses and memory. W ...

Or as first author and graduate research fellow Sarah Sniffen puts it: How do odors come to acquire some sort of emotional charge? In many ways, our world capitalizes upon the importance of smells to ...

According to the British Medical Journal, there are at least three levels of brain function: The brain controls movement and ...

Scientists have long known of a link between loss of smell and dementia — mainly because the plaque buildup that signals dementia initially occurs in parts of the brain related to memory and ...

It’s impossible to overstate the importance of our brain. The organ, housed inside the skull and protected by a bony covering called the cranium, controls thought, memory, emotion, vision, and ...

While Alzheimer’s disease is widely known as a brain disorder, new research reveals it also affects other parts of the body.

Researchers at Mass General Hospital believe your nose knows a lot of very important information about your brain.Which is why they recently introduced a new test that uses your sense of smell to ...