Scents and Sense Ability

Lately, researchers noted that losing the sense of smell, or anosmia, is a common symptom of COVID-19 patients. Two VCU researchers are studying the occurrence of anosmia in COVID-19 patients. For them it’s a natural growth of their work to create a way to restore a sense of smell to individuals who have lost the ability when the nose’s neural pathways are severed from the olfactory bulb.

Their smell restoration research is a collaborative, grassroots initiative originating here at VCU Health that applies existing technology to a new problem to restore smell through electrical stimulation.

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