Medicine & TechnologySeniors who can literally smell the roses, as well as other scents, might be at less risk of developing dementia, a new study suggests.
Myth had been busted that the human sense of smell is not as good as other olfactory capabilities of animals tested like the dog, mouse, goat and monkey. The olfactory bulbs of man may be lesser compared to a mouse or a dog in proportion to size but the olfactory neurons are at par with these laboratory subjects or even more.