Unlike most of our sensory systems that detect only one type of stimuli, our sense of smell works double duty, detecting both chemical and mechanical stimuli to improve how we smell, according to ...

These changes in both the olfactory nerves as well as in the parts of the brain responsible for perceiving smells may be long term and even permanent, ...

Olfactory ensheathing cells (OECs), as the name suggests, ensheath and protect the nerve fibres in the olfactory nerve, which transmit olfactory (smell) information to the brain from receptor ...

This finding, plus the fact that both types of stimuli produce reaction in olfactory nerve cells, which control how our brain perceives what we smell, explains why we sniff to smell something, ...

If a person has lost 30% of their olfactory nerve cells, they won't be able to detect enough odour molecules to activate the threshold level for smelling when they breathe normally.

Rather than focusing on nerve cells, the authors obtained support cells called olfactory ensheathing cells, which normally cover and nurture the axons of nerve cells.

The olfactory nerve connects sense cells in our nose to the olfactory bulb inside our skull. This neural bulb is a massive relay point containing a nest of synapses.

First, the sharp tang of lemon, followed by the abrasive chill of eucalyptus, the sweetness of rose and the metallic warmth of clove.  My new routine – training what is, for most of us, a neglected ...

Some 86% of people with mild cases of Covid-19 lose their sense of smell and taste but recover it within six months, according to a new study of over 2,500 patients from 18 European hospitals.

Researchers have only recently discovered an olfactory nerve that they believe is the route through which pheromones are processed. Nerve “O,” as it is called, slipped under the radar for many ...