The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
And then the molecule dopamine, this neuromodulator, that is associated with motivation and drive. And in some cases, if it's very, very high with mania, or if it's very, very low with depression or Parkinson's, but for most people where dopamine is in essentially normal ranges dopamine is also a powerful trigger of the establishment of these new neurons and their migration into the olfactory bulb and your ability to smell.
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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And there are a number of things that seem to increase the amount of olfactory neuron neurogenesis. There is evidence that exercise, blood flow, can increase olfactory neuron neurogenesis. Although, those data are fewer in comparison to things like social interactions, or actually interacting with odorants of different kinds.