Psychology & Psychiatry

Humans navigate with stereo olfaction

"If in doubt, always follow your nose," said Gandalf in "The Lord of the Rings." Despite Gandalf's advice, humans tend to regard themselves as "microsmatic"—having a poor sense of smell. Human navigation is thought to rely ...

Neuroscience

Have you taken the trillion odor challenge?

(Medical Xpress)—Butterscotch can be made by heating brown sugar and butter together according to some predefined proportion. Although one might imagine an infinite variety of butterscotches might be crafted through the ...

Neuroscience

Physical principles for scalable neural recording

(Medical Xpress)—It took nearly two months, but the videos from the May 6th-7th national BRAIN Initiative meeting are now available online. Although the title of that workshop made central mention of the idea Physical and ...

Medical research

Researchers use gene therapy to restore sense of smell in mice

(Medical Xpress)—A team of scientists from Johns Hopkins and other institutions report that restoring tiny, hair-like structures to defective cells in the olfactory system of mice is enough to restore a lost sense of smell. ...

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