And the olfactory system has the striking ability to elicit powerful emotions, feelings, and memories, thereby impacting quality of life. These qualities, and our resulting, inherent attraction to ...

A white collar worker is kidnapped on the way back home The kidnapper gives lectures to him on the interrelationships among the five senses and points out the importance of the olfactory system ...

“The olfactory system is a lot more adaptable, a lot more variable than we thought,” says Christopher Potter, a neuroscientist at Johns Hopkins University who was not involved in the research. “It’s ...

In cases where technologies do not exist for answering questions of interest, new ones are developed. Research in my laboratory employs the experimentally tractable mouse olfactory system, which ...

have been awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet said the two researchers were being recognized for their discovery of odorant receptors ...

Exposure to air pollution–derived ultrafine particles alters gene transcription by epigenetic mechanisms, a new study shows.

We study how the brain represents sensory information to allow it to store unique memories, using the olfactory system of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster as a model system. How does the brain ...

A new brain imaging study from the ELTE NAP Canine Brain Research group has revealed that age and brain shape affect how strongly olfactory brain regions are connected. The researchers used ...