Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies

This paper proposes a rate-based Poisson compressed sensing model for the olfactory bulb that accurately detects odors within a single sniff.

The paper identifies differences in the ability of piriform cortex neurons projecting to different brain regions to drive learned aversion behavior.

The paper examines how LFP oscillations in the mouse olfactory bulb correlate with sniffing during dark and light periods, finding stronger correlations in the dark.

This study quantifies how trigeminal agonists modulate olfactory responses by measuring Ca2+ changes and EOG responses in mice, showing that trigeminal activation reduces olfactory signal strength.

This study examines the vomeronasal organ in dama gazelles to assess its structure and function, contributing to understanding semiochemical communication and reproductive biology.

The paper investigates how odor imagery, not perception, influences food cue reactivity and adiposity in healthy individuals.

The paper identifies two pheromone receptors in rats based on coadaptation with their respective pheromones, showing coevolution between pheromones and receptors.

This study investigates EEG changes during odor perception and discrimination, finding that frontal theta rhythms reflect odor processing and could be used in olfactory-based BCIs.

This study identifies EEG correlates of olfactory processing during an instructed-delay task, finding specific spatio-spectral patterns associated with odor processing.

The paper studies the olfactory limbus in red foxes, finding it highly developed and complex, suggesting its value as a model for non-canonical chemosensory processing.

This study examines how sniffing responses to odors develop in rats, showing age-related differences in habituation and fear conditioning.

This study characterizes olfactory neuronal cells from nasal biopsies using single-cell and bulk RNA sequencing, showing their neuronal similarity and utility in brain disorder research.

This study develops an automated olfactory matching paradigm to assess sensory and cognitive functions in humans, finding that accuracy and decision times correlate with perceptual certainty and odor complexity.

Pyrfume provides a unified framework to access and analyze diverse olfactory datasets across species and modalities, enabling novel analyses and benchmarks for machine olfaction.

This study shows how mice's piriform cortex neurons adapt to learn and distinguish odor mixtures, becoming more selective over time and improving population-level categorization.

The paper shows that the olfactory bulb performs concentration invariance computations independently and rapidly without relying on feedback from other brain regions.

This paper identifies six potential drug targets for post-COVID-19 anosmia using a phenotype-to-gene-to-drug approach via the Phenograph knowledge graph.

The paper investigates how gamma oscillations in the olfactory bulb encode odor information through spike timing dynamics using optogenetic stimulation.

This study finds that congenitally deaf individuals show enhanced olfactory discrimination and identification, along with increased trigeminal sensitivity, compared to hearing individuals.

The paper identifies a common mechanism for singular gene expression in odorant receptors by analyzing transgenic mice with enhanced OR1A1 expression.

The paper investigates persistent smell loss after COVID-19 by analyzing olfactory epithelium inflammation and gene expression in patients with post-acute sequelae.

The paper identifies Fzd1 as a master regulator of the critical period for olfactory imprinting, showing its role in closing the period to lock in permanent odor memory circuits.

The paper identifies trimethylamine as a male-specific odor detected via TAAR5 in the main olfactory pathway that drives inter-male aggression in mice, independent of glomerular input.

The paper identifies odorant ligands for over 500 mouse olfactory receptors and shows that molecular properties of odorants predict receptor responses and selectivity.

The paper investigates how olfactory sensory neurons adapt transcriptionally to GPCR identity and activity, finding that receptor-specific transcriptomic profiles change with odorant exposure.

The paper investigates how female mice balance memory fidelity and representational stability in the accessory olfactory bulb during the Bruce Effect by analyzing neuronal responses to odorants before and after imprinting.

The paper investigates how acetylcholine modulates inhibitory inputs to granule cells in the olfactory bulb, showing distinct effects on proximal and distal inhibition through muscarinic receptor activation.

The paper shows that self-grooming in mice increases social attraction through chemosensory cues, using optogenetic induction of grooming behavior.

This paper develops a non-invasive fluorescent imaging agent to objectively measure olfaction loss by targeting NaV1.7, showing correlation between fluorescence intensity and smell loss severity.

The paper spatially maps olfactory receptors to glomeruli in the mouse olfactory bulb using targeted transcriptomics.