Olfactory dysfunction in MS may be linked to nasal microbial changes, not just central inflammation. MS patients showed lower ...

The sense of smell long remained the most enigmatic of our senses. The basic principles for recognizing and remembering about 10,000 different odours were not understood. This year's Nobel Laureates ...

Whether different odors can be quickly distinguished depends on certain synapses in the brain that inhibit nerve stimulation. The researchers in Professor Dr. Thomas Kuner's team at the Institute of ...

Anosmia occurs often after infection with SARS-CoV-2, ranging from a temporary impairment to a persistent, possibly permanent, loss of smell. The nasal mucosa represents one of the main entry sites of ...

The mechanism underlying anosmia (loss of smell) during a SARS-CoV-2 infection remains unknown. One unresolved question is whether SARS-CoV-2 infects the olfactory nerve, which could provide ...

Since the passing of Professor Emeritus Alan Mackay-Sim AM in 2023, his ground-breaking legacy research is about to be realised with a Phase I human clinical trial commencing to test the efficacy and ...

A new study in rhesus macaques shows how the COVID-19 virus can enter the brain and cause inflammation of brain cells, especially in aged macaques. (CNPRC photo) SARS-CoV-2, the COVID-19 virus, caused ...

EXAMINATION of the Bird's brain shows that the sense of smell can be but little developed. The olfactory bulbs are small. No medullated nerve-fibres unite them with the rest of the brain. Yet in no ...