Daily bread 08/04/2023

• Scentful Slumbers: Enhancing Memory in Older Adults Through Nightly Aromatherapy - Neuroscience News

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  • 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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