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Inhaling Pleasant Scents During Sleep Tied to a Dramatic Boost in Cognition
Inhaling a pleasant aroma during sleep has been linked to a “dramatic” improvement in memory, early research suggests.
In a small, randomized control trial researchers found that when cognitively normal individuals were exposed to the scent of an essential oil for 2 hours every night over 6 months, they experienced a 226% improvement in memory compared with a control group who received only a trace amount of the diffused scent.
In addition, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) showed that those in the enriched group had improved functioning of the left uncinate fasciculus, an area of the brain linked to memory and cognition, which typically declines with age.
“To my knowledge, that level of [memory] improvement is far greater than anything that has been reported for healthy older adults and we also found a critical memory pathway in their brains improved to a similar extent relative to unenriched older adults,” senior investigator Michael Leon, PhD, professor emeritus, University of California, Irvine, told Medscape Medical News.
The study was published online July 24 in Frontiers of Neuroscience.
“The olfactory system is the only sense that has a direct ‘superhighway’ input to the memory centers areas of the brain; all the other senses have to reach those brain areas through what you might call the ‘side streets’ of the brain, and so consequently, they have much less impact on maintaining the health of those memory centers.”
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