Olfactory tests may be a tool to identify dementia in its initial stages — when interventions are most beneficial, ...

In a nutshell A simple at-home smell test, the AROMHA test, could help detect early signs of Alzheimer’s disease years before ...

Researchers at Mass General Brigham may have developed an easy and inexpensive way to detect early signs of dementia.

For example, the smell of a banana ... to be brought about by some top-down process in which some conscious part of the brain decides ‘I want to think of something now and then.’” ...

The signals generated by our smell sensation are carried by two cranial ... processing of olfactory information as it passes to the brain. Much of the sensation we consider to be taste is actually ...

Then, another part of your brain called the hippocampus weaves those ... So the next day you remember "the party" as a whole instead of "smell of sweat," "house music," "Jen was there." ...

Researchers at Boise State University are developing a virtual reality headset that monitors how well users detect certain ...

A study has identified the early signs of Alzheimers, which could later lead to dementia, and pointed out when to go and get ...

5 They performed brain surgery on a locust and inserted electrodes into the brain regions that process smell. Saha’s team then collected gas samples from the cell cultures of three different types of ...

The strength of a smell tells them how close it is. There are millions of sense receptors inside a bear’s nose, which send information about smells to the bear’s brain. The part of the bear ...