When the Senses Become Confused
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After a stroke, the brain tries to reorganize itself.  However, sometimes this process goes awry, leaving one woman to feel sounds on her skin.
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Why does that brain sometimes turn loved-ones into strangers?
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You may be confused now, but you won't be when you finish reading.
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A patient&#39;s inability to identify common smells such as lemon and soap can help doctors to diagnose early Alzheimer&#39;s disease in those who have developed mild mental problems, researchers said yesterday.
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For more than two decades, New York scientist Richard Axel and colleague Linda B. Buck have shared a singular pursuit: to understand how the brain perceives the world&#39;s myriad of smells - from the scent of roses to the scent of refuse.
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Hair cells inside the cochlear of the ear respond to sound waves and convert them into electrical nerve signals that the brain interprets as sound. Damaged or absent hair cells are one cause of profound deafness.
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ÂThe lingering, perceived essence of anotherÂ sounds like the subject of a Proustian rumination. In fact, it is a line from an academic paper last April in The Journal of Marketing, by Jennifer J. Argo, Darren W. Dahl, and Andrea C. Morales. The authors examined a phenomenon that drives store managers crazy: consumers love to touch products in stores, but they hate buying things others have touched.
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Imitation can be the sincerest form of confusion.
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Where some see stasis, those of us of a certain age tend to see slow-swinging pendulums. Where some perceive exciting ideas as brand new, others perceive in them shades of the past.
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Our brains can turn down our ability to see to help them listen even harder to music and complex sounds, say experts.
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A diagnosis of sensory integration problems is not yet generally accepted, but the number of parent groups devoted to the issue has more than tripled in the last few years.
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NEW YORK  - A new approach that permits   wider visual perception in patients with severely restricted   peripheral field allows quicker and more accurate ability to   detect objects outside their field of vision, suggest results   of a pilot study.
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It will likely be the scent of champagne -- or maybe coffee -- that one day evokes memories of the day Linda Buck won the Nobel Prize for her work unraveling the biology of our sense of smell.
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It has long been suspected that man&#39;s best friend has a special ability to sense when something is wrong with us. Now the first experiment to verify that scientifically has demonstrated that dogs are able to smell cancer.
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How to tell the real meaning of words you don't know.
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Feelings of phoniness appear to alter peopleâs goals in unexpected ways and may also protect them against subconscious self-delusions.
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The moment at the dawn of adolescence when hormones and daydreams swirl into a heady fog of confusion is poetically evoked in âWild Tigers I Have Known.â