A Nose by Any Other Name (Should Smell as Sweetly)

A Nose by Any Other Name (Should Smell as Sweetly)

The standard view that the control of mating behavior by pheromones is mediated by the vomeronasal organ, and not by the main olfactory epithelium, has recently been called into question. In this issue of Cell, two independent studies (Boehm et al., 2005; Yoon et al., 2005) examine the inputs from each of these olfactory pathways to a population of neurons that plays a central role in mating be...

A rose by any other name: would it smell as sweet?

We examined whether presenting an odor with a positive, neutral, or negative name would influence how people perceive it. In experiment 1, 40 participants rated 15 odors for their pleasantness, intensity, and arousal. In experiment 2, 30 participants passively smelled 10 odors while their skin conductance (SC), heart rate (HR), and sniffing were recorded. We found significant overall effects of...

A mushroom by any other name would smell as sweet: Dracula orchids

Mimicry, like coral snakes and their nonvenomous imposters, is one of the most compelling examples of evolution by natural selection. Although mostly known from animals that gain protection by resembling an unpalatable or harmful compatriot, both types of mimicry, Müllerian and Batesian, also occur in plants and fungi. Some fungi are known to mimic flowers to dupe pollinators into vectoring spo...

Systemic sclerosis classification: a rose by any other name would smell as sweet?

'Depression by any other name...'.

There is a popular conviction that psychological disturbance is invariably a reaction to environmental events. This approach is associated with total rejection of the so-called 'medical model'. However, allowance must be made for the fact that contemporary krnow-ledge of psychiatric illness is well behind what is now known about general medicine, and current ideas about psychiatric aetiology ma...