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SUBMITTER: Wabnegger A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6904410 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wabnegger Albert A Schlintl Carina C Höfler Carina C Gremsl Andreas A Schienle Anne A
Brain imaging and behavior 20191201 6
'Super smellers' are those individuals who show a heightened sense of smell. Data on the structural neuroanatomy of this phenomenon are still missing. A voxel-based morphometry study was conducted in order to compare gray matter volume (GMV) in specific brain regions of the olfactory network (piriform/entorhinal cortex, orbitofrontal cortex, insula, hippocampus) between 25 male 'super smellers' and 20 normosmic men. Participants were assigned to these groups based on their scores on a standardiz ...[more]