For the first time, scientists have drawn a human olfactory map

Finally, Israeli scientists deciphered the long-standing mystery of the process of processing and transmitting smells in the human brain so that both halves of the body felt the same smell.

In particular, this will be the door to open hope for treatment of epilepsy, a disorder directly related to the process of transmitting information in the brain.

Being able to smell many different flavors is always considered a human senses but has never been decoded by science.

For years, the scientific community has drawn a map of other senses, but there has not been any olfactory map discovered. And scientists at Bar-Ilan University, central Israel, became the first authors to draw on this map.

Israeli scientists have for the first time drawn a human olfactory map.

According to Israeli scientists' research, since the olfactory bulb began to receive the first scent information, inside the brain the process of arranging and transmitting information on both sides was taken place. Brain.

First, in order to implement this process, olfactory bulb treats the flavor information received from the nostrils into messages like electronic messages to pass through neurons in the brain. And then, thanks to the connection between this olfactory bulb area and both sides of the brain lobe and the sides of the nostrils, "these messages are transmitted to both sides of the body.

Specifically, if the left nostril receives a taste, information about this taste will appear in the left olfactory bulb and transfer to the brain lobe responsible for controlling the left half of the body. And thanks to the above connection, the smell information is transmitted and helps the right side of the nose and the right side of the body feel the same smell. In other words, an odor when entering the body stimulates an active cell group and this group of cells will stimulate the same cell group on the other half of the body to work together.

These results are considered to be very useful in epilepsy studies, a disorder associated with the problem of transmitting information between regions of the brain and between two brain lobes. The research team believes that when a deeper understanding of the connection between the two brain lobes is possible, it is possible to find a cure for the disease.