{"id":103952,"date":"2020-03-19T02:02:56","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T09:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/scents-alter-how-memories-are-processed-in-the-brain-new-study-suggests"},"modified":"2020-03-19T02:02:56","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T09:02:56","slug":"scents-alter-how-memories-are-processed-in-the-brain-new-study-suggests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/scents-alter-how-memories-are-processed-in-the-brain-new-study-suggests","title":{"rendered":"Scents alter how memories are processed in the brain, new study suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scents-alter-how-memories-are-processed-in-the-brain-new-study-suggests.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Have you ever gotten a whiff of a certain smell that brought you back to childhood? Or maybe a scent that reminded you of a past love affair?<\/p>\n<p>A paper <a href=\"http:\/\/learnmem.cshlp.org\/content\/27\/4\/150.abstract\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in Learning and Memory reveals the power scents have to trigger memories of past experiences, as well as the possibility for odor to be used in treating memory-related disorders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf odor could be used to elicit the rich recollection of a memory \u2014 even of a traumatic experience \u2014 we could take advantage of that [therapeutically],\u201d said Boston University neuroscientist Steve Ramirez, assistant professor of psychology and brain sciences and senior author of the study, in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2020-03\/bu-nrr031720.php\" target=\"_blank\">statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever gotten a whiff of a certain smell that brought you back to childhood? Or maybe a scent that reminded you of a past love affair? A paper published in Learning and Memory reveals the power scents have to trigger memories of past experiences, as well as the possibility for odor to be [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}