Sleep is one of the essential physiological needs for human survival, alongside food, water and air. But sleep is socially ...

The study shows how the brain quickly sorts odors using fast rhythms and later decides whether each smell feels pleasant or ...

The brain uses timed mechanism for odor perception. Encoding the chemical information of a smell is followed by detecting ...

While olfaction and hearing have distinct sensory pathways and primary processing areas, they ultimately converge within ...

In a magical scene towards the end of 2007 film Ratatouille), notoriously harsh food critic Anton Ego is instantly ...

The olfactory epithelium, located in the nasal cavity, is the starting point of the olfactory pathways. It consists of three ...

New research suggests that the loss of smell in early Alzheimer’s may stem from the brain’s immune cells dismantling critical neural pathways, offering fresh clues for early detection. Credit: ...

Summary: A fading sense of smell may be one of the earliest warning signs of Alzheimer’s disease, and new research reveals why. Scientists found that microglia, immune cells in the brain, mistakenly ...

MUNICH — Most people think Alzheimer’s disease begins with forgotten names or misplaced keys. But years before memory problems appear, many future patients lose something else entirely: their sense of ...

Abstract: Brain-inspired spiking neural networks (SNNs), which mimic the information processing mechanisms of the biological mammalian olfactory bulb, offer enhanced biological interpretability, more ...

Summary: Researchers have identified a new brain pathway in mice that links the smell of food to feelings of fullness, offering insight into how scent influences appetite. When lean mice smelled food, ...