Showing posts with label smell. Show all posts
Showing posts with label smell. Show all posts
08 May 9: Lavender
Whiffing lavender oil during your next dental visit may blur the memory of your pain.
08 April 9: Cognition
Scents of coffee and chocolate have a significant effect on enhancing cognition and clerical office work.
08 April 7: Signs
In both Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease, loss of olfactory sensitivity is thought to be among the earliest signs of the disease.
08 April 4: Factor
For heterosexual women, smell is the number one physical factor in sexual attraction, as well as the most important social factor, aside from pleasantness. Men also tune in to the important scent messages given off by a woman, but they tend to rely more on their eyes than their noses.
08 April 2: Olfactory
The 2004 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Richard Axel (Howard Hughes Medical Institute, New York, NY) and Linda Buck (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA) for a series of studies that led to their groundbreaking discovery of the gene family responsible for odorant receptors and clarified how the olfactory system works.
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