The power of smell. How the ability to recognize odors shapes memory, predicts diseases, and influences our lives

The sense of smell has the most powerful effect on our emotions in comparison with other feelings and controls our behavior more significant than we assume. Neurobiologist, professor of Anatomy of the University of Quebec in Troya-Riviere (Canada) Johannes Frasnelli, explains accessiblely how the training of the sense of smell affects the human brain, how our sense of smell and depression is changing, how the loss of smell with neurogenetic diseases is associated, and also affects a number of other curious topics - Not only from the field of neurobiology, anatomy and psychology, but also from the sphere of food preferences of residents of different countries, revealing to us the most interesting world of smells and sensations.
“Despite the fact that we always smell - in fact, we perceive smells before birth - and despite the fact that the sense of smell has a direct“ wired ”connection with the limbic system, which means that with our sensual world, people are mostly The smell is considered the least significant of the five feelings. Moreover, violation of the sense of smell not only reduces the quality of life, it can be the first symptom of various diseases. So the increased attention to the sense of smell is quite justified. We can sensitize our sense of smell, even improve it and train our brain in this way. The most beautiful thing that we do not need expensive devices for this, we should simply pay more attention to our sense of smell and talk more often about the smells. ” (Johannes Frasnelli)