SCIENTISTS have spent decades trying to understand what causes dementia. Is it alcohol? Obesity? Or are some of us simply ...

If water contaminated with N. fowleri gets into the nose — for example, when someone dives or jumps into water — these ...

A recent review by researchers at Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine (PCOM) shows Chlamydia pneumoniae (Cpn) and SARS-CoV-2 infections may play a role in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's ...

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Q: Whenever you talk about neti pots, you include a warning about always using distilled water. It seemed to me like an ...

The olfactory nerve is the shortest cranial nerve. It is the shortest distance from the outside world to our brain. It is only a few centimeters long; therefore smell training may make deep sense.

A blow to the head is another cause — particularly a blow to the nose, which can damage the relatively unprotected olfactory nerve on its route to the brain. Infections. Post-infectious olfactory ...

Once researchers realized COVID-19 was affecting smell, several turned their attention to the question of how it did so—and particularly whether the olfactory nerves themselves got infected with ...

In the swirl of monsoon illnesses, the nose often gets dismissed. But subtle shifts in smell—especially during a season of ...

“Our innovative nerve bridges, combined with the high purity olfactory cells, offer what we think is the best hope for treating spinal cord injury,” Professor James St John of Griffith ...

Most people recover their sense of smell and taste after Covid-19. But not all do. Some continue to struggle with the inability to smell or taste at all, while others have only partially recovered.