Posts Tagged: Parosmia

Psychology Update — Scent loss and distortion due to COVID-19 shines new light on the nose

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TITLE Scent loss and distortion due to COVID-19 shines new light on the nose   DESCRIPTION The field of Psychology has long studied the topics of Sensation&Perception.  We know that there are more than the five basic senses though most people can only name the five.  Perhaps the sense of smell (the olfactory sense) doesn’t… Read more »

Psychology Update — What Can Covid-19 Teach Us About the Mysteries of Smell?

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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 »

Psychology Update — Why Covid-19 Patients Are Suffering From Distorted and Phantom Smells

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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 »