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This shows mitral and tufted cells in the olfactory corte

·September 30, 2022·3 min read

Sniffing Out the Brain’s Smelling Power

In the olfactory system, tufted cells are better at recognizing smells than mitral cells. Tufted cells are one of two parallel neural circuit loops that help the brain process different odor features. The findings shed light on how the brain takes in sensory information that influences behavior and emotion.

Image shows Kcc2 in a mouse's olfactory bulb.

Featured Neuroscience

·July 8, 2016·4 min read

Time Switch in the Brain Improves Sense of Smell

Researchers investigate how similar scents are differentiated.

The image is a black and white drawing showing a rat's nose sniffing an odor. The odor is represented as a swirl.

Electrophysiology Featured Neuroscience

·January 12, 2015·5 min read

New Research on what the Nose ‘Knows’ Reveals an Unexpected Simplicity

A new study reports olfactory bulb neurons in rats use linear summation to make sense of fluctuating odor inputs.

This image is a coronal section through the main olfactory bulb of an adult male mouse.

Featured Neuroscience

·August 12, 2013·2 min read

Sense of Smell: The Nose and Brain Make Quite a Team, in Disconnection

Olfactory retentivity persists at a central level, helping us to identify new odors in complex environments and memorize smells, a new study suggests.

This image shows the mouse embryo and mouse brain before and after treatment with SeeDB.

Featured Neuroscience

·June 23, 2013·1 min read

Sugar Solution Makes Tissues See-Through

Combining a new solution which turns tissue transparent with fluorescence microscopy, researchers obtain detail images of a mouse brain with unprecedented resolution.