Smell - An Olfactory Orgy

Smell is one of the primal ways that we humans first navigate the world. Yet smell largely remains a sensorial mystery because of the intricate way that scent, emotion and memory are intertwined in the brain. Research into olfaction, the science of what happens between the nose and the brain, has intensified in the past couple of years due to the huge number of people who lost their sense of smell due to COVID. Luckily, this condition, anosmia, is usually temporary.

Sandeep Robert Datta, Professor of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School; Venkatesh Murty, Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard’s Center for Brain Science and Dr. Eric Holbrook, Director of Rhinology at Mass Eye and Ear help us understand this important but often overlooked sense.

If you are not a sommelier or a parfumer, how much do our noses really matter in making sense of the world. Don’t forget your coffee as you watch this talk – just one sniff contains 800 separate volatile chemicals!
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