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Smelling This One Specific Scent Can Boost The Brain's Gray Matter (www.sciencealert.com)
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[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Researchers from Kyoto University and the University of Tsukuba in Japan asked 28 women to wear a specific rose scent oil on their clothing for a month, with another 22 volunteers enlisted as controls who put on plain water instead.

Magnetic resonance imaging ( MRI) scans showed boosts in the gray matter volume of the rose scent participants.