Background Human olfactory sensitivity is known to vary significantly across subjects.
Furthermore, environmental factors such as background noise and odor are known to affect …

Assessment of odor thresholds is a widely recognized method of measuring olfactory
abilities in humans. To date no attempts have been made to assess whether chemical …

Our aim was to explore factors potentially associated with subjective (self-rated) and
objective (measured using the Sniffin'Sticks Extended test) olfactory performance in the …

Multiple‐compound mixtures of odorants are likely to produce significantly more reliable and
favorable results of olfactory sensitivity testing. Within the current study, we aimed to …

Smell dysfunction is a common and underdiagnosed medical condition that can have
serious consequences. It is also an early biomarker of neurodegenerative diseases …

Anxiety can either impair or enhance performance depending on the context. Increased
sensitivity to threat seems to be an important feature of sensory processing in anxiety since …

Abstract The Odor Awareness Scale (OAS) is a questionnaire designed to assess individual
differences in awareness of odors in the environment. The theory that odor awareness can …

Context. Clinical toxicologists perform risk assessments and clinical evaluations for patients
with potential exposure to airborne toxicants in which the patient's self-reported perception …

Introduction Assessment of olfactory performance is of high clinical interest in the contexts of
smell loss as well as neurological diseases, and recently gained attention in obesity …

The sense of smell allows for the assessment of the chemical composition of volatiles in our
environment. Different factors are associated with reduced olfactory function, including age …