Your nose knows more than you think. Professor Leslie M. Kay joins Vasant Dhar to reveal how smell is wired directly into the brain’s emotional core — and how every breath you take is quietly synchronising your mind.
Useful Resources:
1. Leslie Kay
2. GenBank
3. National Library of Medicine
4. Walter Jackson Freeman III
5. Dynamical Systems
6. Linda B. Buck and Richard Axel
7. Dmitry Rinberg, Rinberg Lab
8. S. Murray Sherman
9. John Hopfield
10. Christof Koch
11. Joy Milne
12. Aromha test
13. Lucia F. Jacobs
14. From chemotaxis to the cognitive map: The function of olfaction – Lucia F Jacobs
15. Patricia Churchland
16. Andrew Sheriff, Northwestern Human Olfaction Lab
17. Long-Range Respiratory and Theta Oscillation Networks Depend on Spatial Sensory Context – Andrew Sheriff, Guinevere Pandolfi, Vivian S Nguyen and Leslie M. Kay
18. Evidence for a Chromatographic Model of Olfaction – Maxwell Mozell
19. COVID-19 and olfactory dysfunction: a looming wave of dementia? – Leslie M. Kay
20. SARS-CoV-2 is associated with changes in brain structure – UK Biobank
21. Asifa Majid
22. Human Olfaction at the Intersection of Language, Culture, and Biology – Asifa Majid
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