Rachael Mead was born unable to smell. It means she experiences the world differently – from tasting food, to a heightened risk of danger. But it’s not all bad.
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Your sense of smell is directly linked to the part of your brain that generates emotions and memories.
Smell training is one of the few options for recovering a lost sense of smell – but can we make it more effective?
Many people have been left with longer-term impairments to their sense of smell following COVID.
Understanding how the brain translates smells into behavior change can help advance search and rescue technology and treatments for neurological conditions.
An expert in olfaction explains the effects of long-term smell loss, the subtle role the sense plays in our lives and resources for those affected.
Around 6 million people have had their sense of smell affected by COVID.
COVID-19 patients often lose their sense of smell and taste. This is rare for a viral infection. At-home smell tests could be used as a screening tool and help slow the spread of the coronavirus.
Temperature checks have become a commonplace screening tool for COVID-19, but loss of sense of smell is a more predictive symptom of coronavirus infection than fever.
The UK was late at recognising smell loss as a COVID symptom.
There is abundant evidence that a sudden loss of smell is related to COVID-19.
Patients who later test positive for COVID-19 are reporting early loss of smell and taste. Researchers are now trying to understand if this could be an early sign of the disease.
Researchers are currently looking into these reports to confirm whether loss of smell is an early indication of COVID-19.
Infections like coronavirus can kill the nerves that let you smell, but they’ll usually grow back within weeks.
It’s hell to lose your sense of smell.
Smell – the strangest of all the senses.
Our senses of taste and smell are linked to one another in ways that experts are continuing to explore. See if you can answer some questions for which experts have discovered some surprising answers.
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Professor of Rhinology and Olfactology, University of East Anglia
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Associate Professor, Flavour Chemistry, University of Reading
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Professor of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of Florida
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Project Manager of the NSF NeuroNex Odor2Action Network, University of Colorado Boulder
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Science Policy Fellow, Australian Government, Griffith University
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Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Penn State
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Professor of Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London
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Senior Research Fellow, Biosciences, University of Oxford
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Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Dayton
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Associate Professor, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet
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Provost and Senior Vice President, Lehigh University
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Head, Clem Jones Centre for Neurobiology and Stem Cell Research
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PhD Candidate, Olfaction, Edinburgh Napier University
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Associate Professor, Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Griffith University
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Professor of Food Science, Penn State