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Scentful Slumbers: Enhancing Memory in Older Adults Through Nightly Aromatherapy - Neuroscience News
- Scentful Slumbers: Enhancing Memory in Older Adults Through Nightly Aromatherapy
- nightly aromatherapy can enhance memory in older adults
- Over six months, subjects were exposed to various natural oil fragrances for two hours each night, leading to a remarkable 226% increase in cognitive capacity
- leverages the known connection between olfaction and memory, offering a potential non-invasive strategy to combat cognitive decline and dementia.
- a 226% increase in cognitive performance
- better integrity in the brain pathway known as the left uncinate fasciculus
- the direct link between the olfactory sense and the brain’s memory circuits
- the potential of aromatherapy as a non-invasive memory enhancement technique
- Participants also reported sleeping more soundly
- the loss of olfactory capacity, or ability to smell, can predict development of nearly 70 neurological and psychiatric diseases
- over the age of 60, the olfactory sense and cognition starts to fall off a cliff,”
- “The olfactory sense has the special privilege of being directly connected to the brain’s memory circuits,”
- All the other senses are routed first through the thalamus.
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