Effortless learning during sleep is everybody’s dream. Several studies found that presenting odor cues during learning and selectively during slow wave sleep increases learning success.. ..We (1) performed a field study of vocabulary-learning in a regular school setting, (2) stimulated with odor cues during the whole night without sleep monitoring, and (3) applied the odor… Continue reading How #odor cues help to optimize #learning during sleep in a real life-setting
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Intact global #cognitive and #olfactory ability predicts lack of transition to #dementia
Odor identification deficits characterize Alzheimer's disease and other dementias ..Smell Identification Test, which includes the 12-item Brief Smell Identification Test (B-SIT) ..In covariate-adjusted survival analyses, impairment on the Blessed Orientation Memory Concentration Test and B-SIT each predicted dementia (n = 109), primarily Alzheimer's disease (n = 101). Among participants with intact olfactory (B-SIT ≥ 11/12… Continue reading Intact global #cognitive and #olfactory ability predicts lack of transition to #dementia
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