Microplastics Found in Brain Affect One Sense in Particular, Study Finds
16 in the JAMA Network Open journal explains how microplastics in the human brain can affect an important part of our daily ...
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The Human Brain May Contain as Much as a Spoon’s Worth of Microplastics, New Research Suggests
In September 2024, these miniature pollutants were also discovered in the human olfactory bulb, a type of brain tissue that sits above the nose in the forebrain. At the time, researchers weren’t ...
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Smell May Be Possible Without Olfactory Bulbs
A study identifies five women who have a functioning sense of smell despite an apparent lack of olfactory bulbs—the region of the brain that processes odors. Jef Akst was managing editor of The ...
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From molecules to perception: 126 years at the forefront of olfactory science
The odorants are then transformed into spatiotemporal patterns of neural activity in the olfactory bulb and central nervous system, and decoded by the brain to generate a perceptual ‘odour ...
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You can train your nose – and 4 other surprising facts about your sense of smell
These cells extend upwards from the roof of your nose towards the smell-processing centre of your brain, called the olfactory bulb. Other senses – such as sight and hearing – aren’t directly ...
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Zapping the Olfactory Bulb Produces Phantom Smells
View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. The sensation of perceiving a smell can be induced in people by using electrodes to stimulate the brain’s olfactory bulb, researchers report ...
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A hearing aid for … your nose? Feedback loop in olfactory system helps brain adapt to stimuli changes
Their findings point to never-before-seen fast-updating signals in a feedback loop between the brain's olfactory cortex and olfactory bulb. These signals may help put odors and sounds into new ...