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Service dogs prove effective in identifying PTSD-related stress markers through human breath

Whether dogs could detect potential stress-related volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in the breath.

4 Apr 2024

Assistance dogs may detect PTSD flashbacks via breath

Dogs' sensitive noses can detect the early warning signs of many potentially dangerous medical situations, like an impending seizure or sudden hypoglycemia.

28 Mar 2024

COVID-19's lasting impact on smell and brain health unveiled

Study reviews the impact of COVID-19 on olfactory dysfunction and its link to neurocognitive disorders, highlighting MRI findings and potential treatments for smell loss.

12 Feb 2024

Do hospitalized COVID-19 patients have long-term cognitive, psychiatric, or neurological complications?

Researchers assessed whether psychiatric, neurological, and cognitive complications among patients hospitalized for COVID-19 differ from those with other medical conditions of similar severity.

3 Jan 2024

Alzheimer's may worsen COVID-19 outcomes via olfactory mucosa changes

A new study identifies alterations in the transcriptomic signatures in human olfactory mucosal cells of individuals with Alzheimer's disease following SARS-CoV-2 infection, potentially contributing to exacerbated COVID-19 outcomes.

15 Dec 2023

Dissecting how co-transmission of interneurons helps in odor detection and discrimination

A longstanding hypothesis in neurobiology was that a single neuron releases a single type of neurotransmitter, a molecule used by neurons to communicate with one another.

28 Nov 2023

Investigating the neurological effects of SARS-CoV-2: anosmia and neuroinvasion as separate phenomena

A group of researchers investigated the neurotropic potential of SARS-CoV-2 and its variants by studying their ability to invade the brain through the olfactory pathway in hamsters.

1 Aug 2023

Study links poor sense of smell with increased risk of depression in older adults

In a study that followed more than 2,000 community-dwelling older adults over eight years, researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine say they have significant new evidence of a link between decreased sense of smell and risk of developing late-life depression.

26 Jun 2023

Five-minute test for olfaction may also help doctors to screen for depression

A five-minute test commonly used to evaluate olfactory function (sense of smell) could also help doctors screen for depression, according to new research out of King George's Medical University, India.

21 Apr 2023

Is there an association between body mass index and cognitive function in older adults?

Researchers examined whether body mass index was associated with cognitive performance in older adults.

10 Apr 2023

Ants show the potential to become a fast, efficient, inexpensive, and non-invasive tool for the detection of human tumors

Researchers demonstrated the use of ants as olfactory bio-detectors of human tumors.

31 Jan 2023

Does bimodal visual-olfactory training with patient-preferred scents improve olfaction in individuals with COVID-19 postviral olfactory loss?

Researchers investigated whether using patient-preferred scents and a bimodal method of visual-olfactory training is more effective than unimodal olfactory training using scents assigned by physicians in treating patients experiencing anosmia after COVID-19.

5 Jan 2023

Olfaction News and Research

Service dogs prove effective in identifying PTSD-related stress markers through human breath

Assistance dogs may detect PTSD flashbacks via breath

COVID-19's lasting impact on smell and brain health unveiled

Do hospitalized COVID-19 patients have long-term cognitive, psychiatric, or neurological complications?

Alzheimer's may worsen COVID-19 outcomes via olfactory mucosa changes

Dissecting how co-transmission of interneurons helps in odor detection and discrimination

Investigating the neurological effects of SARS-CoV-2: anosmia and neuroinvasion as separate phenomena

Study links poor sense of smell with increased risk of depression in older adults

Five-minute test for olfaction may also help doctors to screen for depression

Is there an association between body mass index and cognitive function in older adults?

Ants show the potential to become a fast, efficient, inexpensive, and non-invasive tool for the detection of human tumors

Does bimodal visual-olfactory training with patient-preferred scents improve olfaction in individuals with COVID-19 postviral olfactory loss?

What is the effect of the Omicron variant on olfaction?

The role of nasal microbiome in Parkinson's disease

Study suggests loss of smell and brain inflammation are independent in COVID-19

GnRH therapy could improve cognitive deficits in men with Down syndrome

Investigating the missing link between COVID-19 and anosmia

Study reveals the unique and unconventional way mosquitoes process odors

Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers challenge the prevailing belief on how nasal cells process scent

Sniffing out cancer with insect olfactory neural circuits

Expanding research and clinical options for children with cancer

Examining how pain could play a direct protective role in the gut

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