There are certain smells that conjure a specific time or place for me. That scent that comes with an electrical storm takes me to the New Hampshire lake where I used to spend summers as a child. The ...

Traditionally, we humans have five senses - they're smell, hearing, vision, touch and taste. But only two of these senses are based on chemicals - smell and taste. Smell and taste let us sample the ...

New research appears to show the damaging effects of COVID on the brain, including areas associated with smell and memory. The findings could reveal the effects of COVID in greater detail and how the ...

Searching for new ways to help my senior patients improve and maintain cognitive functions, I came across an interesting research study from the University of California Irvine (Woo, C. et al. 2023) ...

Rose Garden in Nakanoshima, Osaka, Japan. Every other Friday, the Outside/In team answers one listener question about the natural world. This has been edited for length and clarity. Justine Paradis: ...

Michael Schmuker receives funding from NSF/CIHR/DFG/FRQ/UKRI-MRC as a member of the Next Generation Networks for Neuroscience Program (NeuroNex), within the ...

Study after study has shown that people with depression have trouble recalling specific memories. They might hear the word "party," for instance, and think, "I don’t get invited to parties often." By ...

TORONTO ― The University of Pennsylvania Smell Identification Test (UPSIT) has potential as an inexpensive, noninvasive test to help diagnose Alzheimer's disease, a new study shows. In a study of ...

There are many ways to boost brain power, from exercising more often to learning new skills. But what about boosting the actual size of your brain? According to a new study, wearing the right kind of ...