New research reveals how the brain rapidly adapts to sensory changes using a feedback loop between the olfactory cortex and the olfactory bulb.

The sense of smell promotes adaptive behaviors such as feeding and soothing, but how early humans begin to process odors ...

Just like physiotherapy after a physical injury, olfactory training is thought to act like rehabilitation for your sense of ...

Dr. Chen is developing a new delivery system which is designed to help cancer drugs cross the blood-brain barrier.

CSHL Professor Florin Albeanu and his team trained mice to associate a reward with a different sound or odor—but only one of these stimuli at a time. They found that a feedback loop between the ...

Scientists in Brazil found microplastics in the brain tissue of cadavers, according to a new study published Monday in the ...

Early research had suggested that each neuron expresses just one type of receptor, and that all the neurons expressing a particular receptor link to a dedicated olfactory nerve cluster (called a ...

The nose, she knows, is loaded with bacteria, and they’re “really, really close” to the brain—mere millimeters from the olfactory bulb, which processes smell. Salinas has always had a ...

Biologist Prof. Dr. Tobias Ackels (40) from the University of Bonn will be awarded the Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter ...

A neurological assessment is an evaluation of a person’s nervous system, which includes the brain ... nerve for vision, the vestibulocochlear nerve for hearing and balance, and the olfactory ...

Odors are first captured by special olfactory nerve cells inside your nose. These cells extend upwards from the roof of your nose towards the smell-processing center of your brain, called the ...