August 20, 2024 by Dan Baumgardt, The Conversation Thanks to a quirk known as unconscious selective attention, your brain has learned to ignore your nose. A prominent feature that’s positioned closely to the eyes, the schnoz could get in the way of our vision—but the nervous system cleverly filters it out. You can choose to...
By Paul McClure A clinical trial will investigate the use of nose cartilage to regenerate knee joints severely worn by osteoarthritisDepositphotos Having already demonstrated that a small amount of cartilage taken from the nose can be used to repair injured knees, researchers will soon commence a clinical trial to investigate whether the technique can be used...
by Enna Bartlett, University of Manchester Credit: University of Manchester Parkinson’s is a complex disease to diagnose and relies on practitioners’ ability to recognize a myriad of different symptoms. Professor Perdita Barran and Joy Milne are working on ways to improve Parkinson’s diagnosis. Joy Milne is a “super smeller,” she has a rare condition called...
by Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Delivering the medication dantrolene through the nose rather than the mouth may help the medication penetrate the brain more effectively, potentially maximizing its therapeutic benefits in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, like Alzheimer’s disease. In a first-of-its-kind study, researchers in the Perelman School of Medicine...
by Cell Press Our sense of smell depends on the transmission of olfactory information from the nose to the olfactory bulb in the brain through the olfactory nerve. And without olfactory bulbs, smell isn’t possible—or so scientists thought. A team of researchers have uncovered a sliver of the population who have no apparent olfactory bulbs...
By Ryan P. Dalton on August 13, 2019 Subject cDa29—well-known yet anonymous—resides somewhere in the north of England. You can almost see it: the peat stacks and old textile mills; the limestone and turf ruins where, on divine calling, Hadrian marked the northernmost reach of the Roman Empire. But even were you there, you wouldn’t...
By Jennifer Huizen Reviewed by Debra Sullivan, PhD, MSN, RN, CNE, COI Occasionally encountering an unpleasant smell is normal. However, several conditions — including those involving the sinuses, nasal passages, and mouth — can cause a bad smell that seems to come from the inside of the nose. Conditions that may cause a bad smell in the nose include: acute and...
