Scientists have warned that placing plastic items in the dishwasher could raise the risk of dementia. They found that mechanical dishwashing of plastic plates, bowls, cups, and cutlery leads to the ...

You know that feeling. You walk into a kitchen and catch a whiff of something simmering on the stove, something deep and warm ...

Researchers at Griffith University have discovered a tentative but plausible link between nose picking and an increased risk ...

Parkinson's disease affects the brain neurons, causing damage and also affects the movement, tremor and stiffness, but do you ...

How do you judge the nose of an animal you can never meet? For long-extinct mammals like early whales and sabertooths, behavioral clues have vanished with time, and soft tissues rarely survive. Now, a ...

Many people with Alzheimer’s notice their sense of smell isn’t as sharp as it used to be long before their memory declines. The underlying mechanisms responsible for this change have remained a ...

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, ...