Anosmia, or loss of a sense of smell, has become a more familiar term over the past few years, thanks to the prevalence of this condition during the COVID pandemic. Researchers have studied anosmia ...

A team of researchers may have found an effective treatment for one of the more common symptoms of long covid: a chronically changed sense of smell. In a small study, the team found that many patients ...

Not having — or losing — your sense of smell may be linked to changes in breathing that could lead to depression, social isolation or other mental and physical health problems, a new study suggests.

In a recent study published in Nature Communications, a group of researchers investigated the neurotropic potential of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and its variants by ...

Growing up, Julian Meeks knew what a life without a sense of smell could look like. He’d watched this grandfather navigate the condition known as anosmia, observing that he didn’t perceive flavor and ...

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The lack of a sense of smell, called anosmia, can be congenital or acquired at some point in a person's lifetime. Eric Horst via Flickr under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Anosmia—the absence of the sense of ...

A new fluorescent imaging probe can for the first time objectively and non-invasively measure loss of smell, clinically known as anosmia. Targeting the olfactory nerve, the new tool has potential to ...