{"id":168906,"date":"2023-08-02T14:28:57","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T19:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/aromas-while-sleeping-boost-cognitive-capacity"},"modified":"2023-08-02T14:28:57","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T19:28:57","slug":"aromas-while-sleeping-boost-cognitive-capacity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/aromas-while-sleeping-boost-cognitive-capacity","title":{"rendered":"Aromas while sleeping boost cognitive capacity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/aromas-while-sleeping-boost-cognitive-capacity.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When a fragrance wafted through the bedrooms of older adults for two hours every night for six months, memories skyrocketed. Participants in this study by University of California, Irvine neuroscientists reaped a 226% increase in cognitive capacity compared to the control group. The researchers say the finding transforms the long-known tie between smell and memory into an easy, non-invasive technique for strengthening memory and potentially deterring dementia.<\/p>\n<p>The team\u2019s study appears in <em>Frontiers in Neuroscience<\/em>. (Link to the open access study: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontiersin.org\/articles\/10.3389\/fnins.2023.1200448\/full\" rel=\"noopener\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontiersin.org\/articles\/10.3389\/fnins.2023.1200448\/full\">https:\/\/www.frontiersin.org\/articles\/10.3389\/fnins.2023.1200448\/full<\/a><\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The project was conducted through the UCI Center for the Neurobiology of Learning &amp; Memory. It involved men and women aged 60 to 85 without memory impairment. All were given a diffuser and seven cartridges, each containing a single and different natural oil. People in the enriched group received full-strength cartridges. Control group participants were given the oils in tiny amounts. Participants put a different cartridge into their diffuser each evening prior to going to bed, and it activated for two hours as they slept.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a fragrance wafted through the bedrooms of older adults for two hours every night for six months, memories skyrocketed. Participants in this study by University of California, Irvine neuroscientists reaped a 226% increase in cognitive capacity compared to the control group. The researchers say the finding transforms the long-known tie between smell and memory [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168906","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}