<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Neuraci Labs]]></title><description><![CDATA[Programming the Sense of Smell]]></description><link>https://www.neuracilabs.com/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 23:21:53 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.neuracilabs.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Could a Smell Test Flag Brain Disease Earlier?]]></title><description><![CDATA[What olfaction reveals about Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, and the prodromal brain years before symptoms arrive. A patient says food tastes flat. Another notices that coffee smells weaker than it used to, but shrugs it off as aging. A third does not notice any problem at all until formal testing reveals marked impairment across multiple odor categories. For decades, such presentations were treated as peripheral nuisances or, at most, quality-of-life complaints with no diagnostic weight. The newer...]]></description><link>https://www.neuracilabs.com/post/could-a-smell-test-flag-brain-disease-earlier</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a10cc23a2438924d10d79f2</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 21:48:10 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Sreeja Krishnamari</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[From Molecule to Meaning: Inside the Olfactory Pathway]]></title><description><![CDATA[How a single airborne molecule travels through the nervous system to become a feeling, a memory, and a state of mind, faster than any other sense. Most people think of smell as a soft, atmospheric sense: pleasant when coffee is brewing, alarming when smoke appears, and easy to overlook compared with the sharper immediacy of sight and sound. Neuroscience tells a different story. Smell may be the most intimate sense the brain possesses, not because it is subtle, but because the pathway is so...]]></description><link>https://www.neuracilabs.com/post/from-molecule-to-meaning</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a10c4bb8fa816dacc7f6995</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 21:20:22 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Sreeja Krishnamari</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Missing Map: Inside the Human Nose]]></title><description><![CDATA[For over a century, scientists assumed smell was the one sense without order. A landmark discovery at Harvard has just proven them wrong, and what it reveals changes everything. In the long history of sensory neuroscience, every sense has had its map. Vision has the retinotopic cortex, a precise spatial mirror of what the eye sees. Hearing has the tonotopic map, a frequency keyboard laid out across the auditory cortex. Touch has the somatosensory homunculus, an anatomical diagram so famous it...]]></description><link>https://www.neuracilabs.com/post/the-brain-shidden-map</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a10ac1214fd2997797dc339</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 19:29:00 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Sreeja Krishnamari</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>