TITLE What Can Covid-19 Teach Us About the Mysteries of Smell? DESCRIPTION This is a most fascinating article that would be classified in the Sensation and Perception chapters in the textbook. Interestingly, those chapters devote the smallest amount of space to the sense of smell (olfactory) and taste (gustatory). The article begins with… Read more »
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Psychology Update — Why Covid-19 Patients Are Suffering From Distorted and Phantom Smells
TITLE Why Covid-19 Patients Are Suffering From Distorted and Phantom Smells DESCRIPTION One of the strangest problems of Covid-19 is the loss of the smell sense (anosmia) or worse a distorted repulsive sense of smell. “Of more than 4,000 respondents to a multilingual, international study of people with recent smell loss published in Chemical… Read more »
PSYCHOLOGY UPDATE — 3 ARTICLES on S & P Topics Regarding Sensory Loss
S & P Topics Regarding Sensory Loss ARTICLE #1 TITLE 4 Common Types of Hearing Problems: Why they occur and what you can do about them DESCRIPTION This is a brief informative article that details types of hearing loss due to aging, disease, and medicines. Related disorders such as vertigo and dizziness… Read more »