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Olfaction (sense)
Categories: Olfaction | Flavors | Gustatory system
Odor
Olfactory fatigue
Olfactory system
Nose

Disorders of Olfaction

Anosmia – lack of ability to smell
Dysosmia – things smell differently than they should
Hyperosmia – an abnormally acute sense of smell
Hyposmia – decreased ability to smell
Olfactory Reference Syndrome – psychological disorder which causes the patient to imagine he has strong body odor
Parosmia – things smell worse than they should
Phantosmia – "hallucinated smell", often unpleasant in nature

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• Sweet Scents Lure Clubbers onto the Dance Floor -- LiveScience (08 June 2011)

• Research on Interesting Questions About Smells -- Andreas Keller Olfaction
  
  
• Is Mate Choice in Humans MHC-Dependent? -- PLoS Genetics (4(9): e1000184. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1000184)
  
  
• Mate Selection More Biologically Determined in Some Human Populations -- EurekAlert (11 September 2008)
  
  
• Olfaction -- John C. Leffingwell
  
  
• Onions Made Pre-Human Ancestors Cry Too, Study Suggests -- LiveScience (19 March 2010)
  
  
• Quick -- What's That Smell? Time Needed To Identify Odors Reveals Much About Olfaction -- ScienceDaily (03 August 2006)
  
  
• Scent of a Woman: Men's Testosterone Responses to Olfactory Ovulation Cues -- EurekAlert (13 January 2010)
  
  
• Sense of Smell -- Sense of Smell Institute
  
  
• Smell (Olfaction) -- Tim Jacob, Cardiff University, UK
  
  
• Top 100 Stories of 2009 #75: Yes, You Really Can Smell Fear -- Discover (23 December 2009)
  
  
• "Variation in sensation and affect: We live in 'different taste worlds'" --Linda Bartoshuk
  Fifth Lecture of the Nobel Conference 46 Making Food Good Conference -- Gustavus Adolphus College (5-6 October 2010) (archives are available online at <http://gustavus.edu/events/nobelconference/2010/archive.php>)
  
  
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• Women 'Can Sense Attraction in Men's Sweat -- Telegraph (27 December 2009)
  
  
• Women's Natural Scent More Seductive Than Perfume -- DiscoveryNews (10 February 2010)