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Babies are less afraid when they can smell their mothers

8 November 2019

When babies can smell their mothers’ odour, their brains respond less to fearful situations

Some women lack odour-detecting part of brain but still sense smells

Some women lack odour-detecting part of brain but still sense smells

6 November 2019

A handful of women who seem to lack the olfactory bulbs we use to detect odours still have a good sense of smell, and we don’t know why

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