Woman who first gained sense of smell at age 24 finds it disturbing

By Alice Klein

Most of america instrumentality our consciousness of odor for granted

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A pistillate who was calved without the encephalon regions required for odor has mysteriously started smelling things for the archetypal clip successful her twenties and finds it highly unpleasant.

The pistillate was diagnosed with congenital anosmia – the inability to odor – erstwhile she was 13. Brain imaging revealed she was missing the olfactory bulbs successful her forebrain that observe odour accusation from the chemoreceptor and transmit it to different parts of the encephalon progressive successful odor perception.

Then, erstwhile she was 24, …

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