Heightened ability to imagine odors linked to higher body weight
January 14, 2016
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TEST3Researchers at The John B. Pierce Laboratory and the Yale School of Medicine have revealed that the ability to vividly imagine the smell of popcorn, freshly baked cookies and even non-food odors is greater in obese adults.… Continue Reading ?
Can robots be taught to smell?
November 09, 2015
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TEST3By Ed Stannard, New Haven Register
Posted: 10/29/15, 1:19 PM EDT
NEW HAVEN >> Understanding the sense of smell could help in building robots to do things we rely on animals to do today, such as locating people under the rubble of an earthquake, locating illegal drugs or finding
Continue Reading ?The Sense of Smell Uses Fast Dynamics to Encode Odors
January 08, 2015
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TEST3Dr. Justus Verhagen and other Neuroscientists from the John B. Pierce Laboratory and Yale School of Medicine have discovered that mice can detect minute differences in the temporal dynamics of the olfactory system, according to research published in the open access journal PLOS Biolog
Continue Reading ?Why is it so hard to switch to a healthy, low-calorie diet?
August 30, 2013
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TEST3Research from the laboratory of Dr. Ivan de Araujo, Associate Fellow, makes significant progress toward answering this crucial question in the battle against obesity.
A major limitation of behavioral interventions for weight loss is the low appeal of low-calorie diets.… Continue Reading ?
Lighting the Way to Study the Brain
August 30, 2013
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TEST3Finding new technologies to visualize and quantify the firing of individual neurons and their myriad network connections is an essential goal of the new BRAIN initiative recently announced by President Obama.… Continue Reading ?
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