Saturday 11 December 2021

Smell is an Incredible Design

 

Image courtesy of Behzad Iravani.

Joel Kontinen


Researchers at the Karolinska Institutet have been able to study what happens in the brain when the central nervous system judges a smell to represent danger

PNAS researchers at the Karolinska Institutet have been able to study what happens in the brain when the central nervous system judges a smell to represent danger

The research was published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,

The olfactory organ takes up about five per cent of the human brain and enables us to distinguish between many million different smells.

Yes, smell s an Incredible Design.  

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Sense of smell is our most rapid warning system Karolinska Institutet 14 October. .