The Power of Smell. How the ability to recognize smells shapes memory, predicts disease, and influences our lives
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The Power of Smell. How the ability to recognize smells shapes memory, predicts disease, and influences our lives
9.99 €
The sense of smell has the strongest influence on our emotions compared to our other senses and controls our behavior more significantly than we realize. Johannes Frasnelli, a neuroscientist and professor of anatomy at the University of Quebec in Trois-Rivières (Canada), explains in an accessible way how training the sense of smell affects the human brain, how anxiety and depression change our sense of smell, how loss of smell is linked to neurogenerative diseases, and touches on a number of other interesting topics - not only from the fields of neurobiology, anatomy and psychology, but also from the food preferences of people from different countries, opening up a fascinating world of smells and sensations. "Despite the fact that we always smell - in fact, we perceive odors even before birth - and despite the fact that the sense of smell has a direct "wired" connection with the limbic system, and therefore with our sensory world, people mostly consider the sense of smell the least important of the five senses. At the same time, an impaired sense of smell not only reduces the quality of life, it can be the first symptom of various diseases. So it is justified to pay more attention to the sense of smell. We can sensitize our sense of smell, even improve it and thus train our brain. The great thing is that we don't need expensive devices for this, we just have to pay more attention to our sense of smell and talk to each other more often about odors." (Johannes Frasnelli)
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