Sense Of Smell Boosted By Anxiety

Main Category: Anxiety / Stress
Also Included In: Ear, Nose and Throat
Article Date: 26 Mar 2012 0:00 PDT

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Anxious people have a heightened clarity of smell when it comes to sniffing out a threat, according to a new investigate by Elizabeth Krusemark and Wen Li from a University of Wisconsin-Madison in a US. Their work¹ is published online in Springers biography Chemosensory Perception. The investigate is partial of a special issue² of this biography on neuroimaging a chemical senses.

In animals, a clarity of smell is an essential apparatus to detect, locate and brand predators in a surrounding environment. In fact, a olfactory-mediated invulnerability complement is so distinguished in animals, that a small participation of predator odors can elicit manly fear and stress responses.

Smells also elicit absolute romantic responses in...