Search Results - "BENSAFI, Moustafa"
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Smell and taste changes are early indicators of the COVID-19 pandemic and political decision effectiveness
Published in Nature communications (14-10-2020)“…In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, many governments have taken drastic measures to avoid an overflow of intensive care units. Accurate metrics of disease…”
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Effect of aging on hedonic appreciation of pleasant and unpleasant odors
Published in PloS one (24-04-2013)“…Does hedonic appreciation evolve differently for pleasant odors and unpleasant odors during normal aging? To answer this question we combined psychophysics and…”
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Neural processing of the reward value of pleasant odorants
Published in Current biology (26-04-2021)“…Pleasant odorants are represented in the posterior olfactory bulb (pOB) in mice. How does this hedonic information generate odor-motivated behaviors? Using…”
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Data-science based analysis of perceptual spaces of odors in olfactory loss
Published in Scientific reports (19-05-2021)“…Diminished sense of smell impairs the quality of life but olfactorily disabled people are hardly considered in measures of disability inclusion. We aimed to…”
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Olfactory perceptual fingerprints of people with olfactory dysfunction and healthy controls
Published in Laryngoscope investigative otolaryngology (01-08-2024)“…Objective(s) An olfactory perceptual fingerprint (OPF) defines one's olfactory perception using perceptual descriptor ratings (such as odor pleasantness,…”
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Chemical features mining provides new descriptive structure-odor relationships
Published in PLoS computational biology (25-04-2019)“…An important goal in researching the biology of olfaction is to link the perception of smells to the chemistry of odorants. In other words, why do some…”
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Neural processing of odor-associated words: an fMRI study in patients with acquired olfactory loss
Published in Brain imaging and behavior (01-08-2020)“…Perception of olfactory information is mediated by both bottom-up (from molecules to perception) and top-down (e.g. cross-modal associative learning)…”
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Humans and mice express similar olfactory preferences
Published in PloS one (16-01-2009)“…In humans, the pleasantness of odors is a major contributor to social relationships and food intake. Smells evoke attraction and repulsion responses,…”
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Individual Differences as a Key Factor to Uncover the Neural Underpinnings of Hedonic and Social Functions of Human Olfaction: Current Findings from PET and fMRI Studies and Future Considerations
Published in Brain topography (01-11-2019)“…The hedonic and social dimensions of olfactory perception are characterized by a great diversity across people. Whereas the cerebral processing underlying…”
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Eating behavior in autism: senses as a window towards food acceptance
Published in Current opinion in food science (01-10-2021)“…•Atypical eating behaviors are common in autism.•Sensory processing influence food acceptance.•Regular exposure to sensory stimuli improves food selectivity in…”
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Relationship Between Odor Intensity Estimates and COVID-19 Prevalence Prediction in a Swedish Population
Published in Chemical senses (22-05-2020)“…Abstract In response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, countries have implemented various strategies to reduce and slow the spread of the…”
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Using Exceptional Attributed Subgraph Mining to Explore Interindividual Variability in Odor Pleasantness Processing in the Piriform Cortex and Amygdala
Published in Intelligent computing (01-01-2024)“…In humans, the amygdala and piriform cortex are 2 important brain structures involved in hedonic odor processing. Although the affective processing of odors in…”
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Smells Influence Perceived Pleasantness but Not Memorization of a Visual Virtual Environment
Published in i-Perception (London) (01-03-2021)“…The present study aimed to investigate whether the perception of still scenes in a virtual environment in congruent versus incongruent condition can be…”
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Effects of familiarization on odor hedonic responses and food choices in children with autism spectrum disorders
Published in Autism : the international journal of research and practice (01-08-2019)“…This study assessed whether olfactory familiarization can render food odors more pleasant, and consequently food more attractive, to children with autism…”
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Dissociated representations of pleasant and unpleasant olfacto-trigeminal mixtures: an FMRI study
Published in PloS one (12-06-2012)“…How the pleasantness of chemosensory stimuli such as odorants or intranasal trigeminal compounds is processed in the human brain has been the focus of…”
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The effect of verbal context on olfactory neural responses
Published in Human brain mapping (01-03-2014)“…Odor names refer usually to “source” object categories. For example, the smell of rose is often described with its source category (flower). However,…”
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Attentional modulation in human primary olfactory cortex
Published in Nature neuroscience (01-01-2005)“…Central to the concept of attention is the fact that identical stimuli can be processed in different ways. In olfaction, attention may designate the identical…”
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Identification of the needs of individuals affected by COVID-19
Published in Communications medicine (09-05-2024)“…Background The optimal management of COVID-19 symptoms and their sequelae remains an important area of clinical research. Policy makers have little scientific…”
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An olfactory self-test effectively screens for COVID-19
Published in Communications medicine (05-04-2022)“…Background Key to curtailing the COVID-19 pandemic are wide-scale screening strategies. An ideal screen is one that would not rely on transporting,…”
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Semantic knowledge influences prewired hedonic responses to odors
Published in PloS one (08-11-2010)“…Odor hedonic perception relies on decoding the physicochemical properties of odorant molecules and can be influenced in humans by semantic knowledge. The…”
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