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Getting ahead of Alzheimer’s: What your sense of smell says about your health
03 Apr 2025 20:23 GMT
Can the smell, or lack thereof, of apple pie or vanilla signal cognitive decline?
Researchers at Boise State University are working on a virtual reality headset monitoring how the detection of certain aromas could help diagnose early stages of Alzheimer’s. …
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Scientists sent beans into orbit and made ‘space miso.’ Here’s how it tasted
02 Apr 2025 15:28 GMT
… roasted and nutty flavor.
Scientists Maggie Coblentz from the Massachusetts … more jostled—which makes sense, as it had traveled … It was exciting to smell and taste the first … microbiology, flavor chemistry, sensory science, and larger social and cultural …
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Dogs see their world through smell – and scientists are starting to translate it like never before
01 Apr 2025 16:03 GMT
… finding illicit substances, as medical colleagues for disease detection, … dogs interpret what they smell and how they perceive … sniffer dogs.
Until now, scientists needed expensive equipment to study … component to how dogs sense their environment. Taste and …
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‘Smell of Decaying Bodies Fills Air’: Myanmar Earthquake Survivors Reveals Grim Situation As Death Toll Surpasses 2,000
01 Apr 2025 08:32 GMT
… country and disclosed the mental health toll that he going … , heightening the sense of despair. "The smell is unbearable,… effort to rebuild communities, provide medical care, and restore basic … com for all the latest health news and updates.
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Ohio State researchers test devices to restore sense of smell
01 Apr 2025 05:24 GMT
… treating the sense of smell. The Ohio State University College of Medicine has … a standard smell test from the National Institutes of Health, researchers found … both prototypes in healthy study participants with normal smell function. However, the …
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In East Africa, Rats Have Prevented 400,000 New Cases of Deadliest Infection Using Their Super Sense of Smell
01 Apr 2025 00:08 GMT
… by these rats, whose sense of smell would make a bloodhound take … would take 4 days for scientists to analyze the number of … at the antiquated, pre-antibiotic medical advice.
But it remains the …
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Home-based smell test shows promise in detecting early cognitive decline, study finds
31 Mar 2025 19:50 GMT
… in a person’s sense of smell might offer a window … . By comparing results from healthy adults, individuals with subjective … focused on olfaction—our sense of smell—as a potential early … and assistant professor at Harvard Medical School. Albers was involved …
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Smell Test at Home May Sniff Out Early Cognitive Decline
31 Mar 2025 14:13 GMT
… professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School.
“Our goal has … the sometimes-subtle loss of sense of smell — can serve as an … people who had no sense of smell and with cognitively normal … by the National Institutes of Health.
Author: Mass General Brigham …
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The Art Effect: Neuroaesthetics and the Future of Health Equity
31 Mar 2025 10:07 GMT
… , temperature, taste, and smell of food. We are … the interplay among our senses, our relationships, the … the most powerful medicine is free.”
Health scientist Tasha Golden, who … National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, accessed December 20, 2024 …
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Taiwanese Study Shows Air Pollution’s Impact on Brain Health
25 Mar 2025 08:19 GMT
… pollution might negatively affect brain health in older adults.
Research conducted … the immune system through the sense of smell, leading to inflammation, as … between air pollution and brain health in the elderly.
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