“Smell is very primitive, but at the same time has direct links to the highest centers of the brain,” says Donald Wilson, professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at New York University. Odor receptors in the nose are actually extensions of the olfactory bulb in the brain, which “has fingers on buttons affecting what we eat, with whom we mate, what we’re afraid of.”
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