New research explores the many ways our sensory experiences overlaps, teaching us new ways the brain perceives ...

Odorants, mostly organic molecules that are released into the womb or in our atmospheric environment after birth, are detected by specialized olfactory receptor cells in the nasal cavity.

U ltrafine particles, UFPs, the smallest contributors to air pollution, hinder the function of mitochondria in human olfactory mucosa cells, a new study shows. Led by the University of Eastern ...

Odours 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 centre of your brain, called the ...

These odor molecules contact a tissue called the olfactory epithelium (Fig. 1), which contains olfactory receptor cells that lock onto these odor molecules. This generates electrical signals that are ...

In mice, as in humans, odors are registered by olfactory cells in the nasal mucosa. Each of these nerve cells carries only one type of olfactory receptor. Mice have more than 1,000 such types ...

Mount SInai researchers identified the cortical amygdala – an olfactory cortical structure – as a key brain region in ...

Neural activity in the cortical amygdala determines whether mice engage in aggressive or pro-social behavior, according to a ...

The olfactory nerves run from the inside of the nose, through the skull, and then directly into part of the brain called the ...