Discovering odors. (©2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Gérard Brand.
• Other Names: Brand, Gérard
• Contents: Dr. Følling's Flair: Discovery of Phenylketonuria by Smell -- A Nobel Prize for the Nose and Retraction in Science -- Sperm and Lily of the Valley -- Vibrational Theory and the Astonishing Story of Researcher Luca Turin -- The Famous Madeleines: The Proust Phenomenon, a Scientific Spoliation? -- The Smell of Rain -- The Neanderthal Nose -- Mr. and Mrs. Kallmann Have a Son: When Losing Your Nose and Losing Your Gonads Go Hand in Hand -- Whiplash, or Losing Your Sense of Smell Following a Head Injury -- Phantom Odors -- These Odors That Make Your Head Hurt -- The Sleeper's Nose -- Surströmming: The Worst Odor in the World? -- It Smells Like Cheese -- What Fennel Reveals to Us -- Mustard Goes Up My Nose and Onions Make Me Cry: Discovering a Third Unknown Chemical Sense -- Lavender at the Dentist: Aromatherapy, a Myth or a Reality? -- Catnip and Pregnant Women: Some Variations in Sensitivity to Odors -- If You Eat Too Much Fat, You Will Lose Your Sense of Smell -- Experts' Noses -- Filled with Smells -- Obesity and Chocolate -- The Nose on the Plate: A Difficult Scientific Consensus -- The Smell of a Hot Croissant: When Our Sense of Smell Nibbles Away at Our Free Will -- The Dog That Sniffs Out Cancer -- Smells to Cure Cancer? -- A Depressed Patient's Nose -- Gogol's Nose or "Empty Nose" Syndrome -- She Smells Parkinson's -- And What Does Parkinson's Smell Like? -- Alzheimer's Nose: Losing Sense of Smell and Losing Memory, the Same Story? -- The Smell of Old People -- The Smell of Death -- Red Meat, Garlic and Sex Appeal -- Tears and Desire: Stop Crying, it Doesn't Turn Me On Anymore -- With a Bad Nose, Comes a Poor Flirt -- It's All in the Sweat -- The Smell of Fear -- What Epigenetics Owes to the Nose: How Fear Learned From an Odor can be Transmitted to Offspring -- Odor and Pain -- Odorology -- On the Trail of Odors -- The Electronic Nose -- The Plane Nose: The Methods of the Fraunhofer-Institut für Bauphysik to Get Up in the Air -- The Gender of the Nose -- The Newborn's Nose -- The Smell of a Handshake -- The Nose and Perfumes -- Odors ... A Hobby? -- Tell Me What You Smell, I'll Tell You Who You Are, But Not Where You Come From: On Genetic Variations in Odor Perception -- Conclusion.
• Publisher Details: London Hoboken : ISTE, Ltd John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
• Publication Date: 2019
• Copyright Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (164 pages)
• Subjects: 573.8/77; Odors; SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Neuroscience; Odors; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781119687467; 1119687462; 9781119687474; 1119687470
• Related ISBNs: 9781786305213
• Notes: Note: Print version record.
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