Posts Tagged ‘odor’

In grade school, my favorite place on campus was the library. Ours was an old school, and the library was small with dark wood floors, tables, chairs, and shelves. To this day, the lemony scent of certain wood-care products makes me feel a wonderful sense of nostalgia as I’m taken back to that old library and the adventures I found in the books it housed.

We all know smells can remind us of people, places, and events from our pasts. But recently Israeli researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science began studying how the link between odor and memory might be used to help treat trauma patients.

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