New research shows that inhaling polluted air for just an hour can impair cognitive abilities like attention and emotional ...

Our work shows that short-term exposure to air pollution can significantly impact upon several dimensions of cognition,” says coauthor Francis Pope, PhD, an environmental sci ...

Animals, including humans, rely on multiple senses to navigate their environments and make decisions. This integration of ...

The liver performs hundreds of vital functions, including converting nutrients from food into energy, filtering toxins from the blood, and producing bile, a key substance in digestion and waste ...

Oxidative stress can adversely alter the cell function of proteins ... Prenatal stress inhibits hippocampal neurogenesis but spares olfactory bulb, Neurogenesis. PLoS ONE 8(8): e72972.

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 ...

"The take home point with this study is that we saw from the imaging that duration of WTC exposures had a direct link to amyloid in the brain, specifically in the olfactory cortex," says Sean ...

This is known as olfactory dysfunction ... their sense of smell years before any symptoms show in body or brain function. However many people are not aware they are losing their sense of smell.

However, the complexity of the insect olfactory system makes it a significant challenge ... algorithm alongside a Support Vector Machine (SVM) with a Radial Basis Function (RBF) kernel to evaluate the ...