Given the large proportion of time spent by the average person indoors, it is imperative to
have an understanding of the impacts of long-term and immersive exposure to a variety of …

Previous decades have witnessed a lot of challenges that have provoked a dire need of
ensuring global food security. The process of augmenting food production has made the …

Olfactory and emotional higher processing pathways share common anatomical substrates.
Hence, depression is often accompanied by alterations in olfactory function. These …

The world is undergoing massive atmospheric and ecological change, driving
unprecedented challenges to human well-being. Olfaction is a key sensory system through …

The emergence of nanotechnology has created unprecedented hopes for addressing
several unmet industrial and clinical issues, including the growing threat so‐termed …

The majority of the world's population now lives an urban existence, spending as much as
95% of their lives indoors. The olfactory atmosphere in the built environment has been …

Many people are understandably excited by the suggestion that the chemical senses can be
digitized; be it to deliver ambient fragrances (eg, in virtual reality or health-related …

It is well known that feelings of happiness transfer between individuals through mimicry
induced by vision and hearing. The evidence is inconclusive, however, as to whether …

Our knowledge regarding the neural processing of the three chemical senses has been
considerably lagging behind that of our other senses. It is only during the last 25 years that …

Functional neuroimaging methods have been used extensively during the last decades to
explore the neural substrates of olfactory processing. While a general consensus on the …