All About SMELL - Olfaction - A tutorial on the sense of smell

Compiled by Tim Jacob

School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF1 3US

A tutorial on the sense of smell, What's NEW in smell, including a guide to the olfactory system, the anatomy and physiology of smell, notes on smell research, key facts relating to smell, information relating to smell and the perception of odour, perception of odor, smell and memory, a description of the role of smell, the influence of smell on health, the use of smell in therapy, disorders of the olfactory system, What's new in olfaction?, olfactory conditioning and its uses in medicine, research into smell, psychology of smell, News in olfaction, What's NEWS in olfaction, Aromatherapy - does it work?

http://www.cf.ac.uk/biosi/staff/jacob/teaching/sensory/olfact1.html

International Multisensory Research Forum

The International Multisensory Research Forum (IMRF) facilitates communication between scientists who work with sensory systems in which more than one sense modality plays a role. We seek to include any and all sense modalities, species, scientific disciplines, and perspectives (anatomical, cognitive, behavioral, computational, developmental, engineering, physiological, and others).

http://www.imrf.info/

MULTISENSE.info - A Virtual Community for Multisensory Researchers

We are in the process of building an online community for researchers studying multisensory topics. Our virtual journal will be online in the next month or two. We hope that you will submit all of your published articles on multisensory topics to our database.

http://www.multisense.info/

Giant list of books, links and sources from MIT (Links do not work as this is an old archive, but still of value for clever researchers.) References on Smell as Media and the Olfactory Display of Abstract Information. http://web.archive.org/web/20031128180843/http://web.media.mit.edu/~jofish/projects/smellcourse/refs.html

The National Association for Holistic Aromatherapy (NAHA) is an educational, nonprofit organization dedicated to enhancing public awareness of the benefits of true aromatherapy. NAHA is actively involved with promoting and elevating academic standards in aromatherapy education and practice for the profession. NAHA is also actively involved in furthering the publics perception and knowledge of true aromatherapy and its safe and effective application in everyday life.

http://www.naha.org/

Integrative Therapies Program For Children With Cancer. http://carolann.hs.columbia.edu/research/studies/aroma.shtml

Monell Chemical Sense Center site:

Paper Titled "NEUROSCIENCE AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY"

http://www.monell.org/researchoverview.htm

Southcoast Aromatherapy Aromatherapy Training for Healthcare Professionals Janice Gagnon-Warr, RN, LMT, CPT New Bedford, MA 508-985-1946 jgwarr@aol.com

Alan R. Hirsch, M.D., F.A.C.P. Neurologist and psychiatrist, is the Neurological Director of the Smell & Taste Treatment and Research Foundation in Chicago. The author of more than 100 articles on the psychological power of scent, his studies have been published in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) and other prestigious publications. He has presented his findings on several eminent network television shows and his work has been widely written about in consumer trade magazines in the US and abroad.

http://www.smellandtaste.org/

Journal of American Medical Association Search for aromatherapy

http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/search?fulltext=aromatherapy&submit.x=9&submit.y=11

Alternative Healing Directory:

Inner growth through alternative therapy: affirmations, aromatherapy, feng shui, flower essences, gemstone therapy, goal setting techniques, herbs, massage.

http://www.gems4friends.com

Also Check out the Aromatherapy Information Page while visiting.

http://www.gems4friends.com/oils.html

Alt-HealthSearch is a Searchable Directory and Database of Alternative Health Resources (information, products, and services for holistic medicine and natural healing) on the Web, with active links to alt. health sites, and information about the products and services being offered.

http://www.alt-healthsearch.com/

Internet Resources: Alternative Medicine Resources

http://www.pitt.edu/~cbw/internet.html

Aromatherapy Today is the international aromatherapy journal for those who are passionate about aromatherapy.

http://www.aromatherapytoday.com

Aromatherapy Global Online Research Archives (AGORA) Index :

The Aromatherapy Global Online Research Archives is a unique noncommercial, website, contributed to by about eighty people worldwide. We are working to promote the serious, intelligent and SAFE use of essential oils for healing the body, mind and spirit. The various pages on this website are hosted in different places, internationally, reflecting the worldwide nature of the interest and participation in aromatherapy. The origin of this project came from a dream of Michel Vanhove, who hosts this homepage.

http://users.erols.com/sisakson/pages/agoindex.htm

Assessing the effectiveness of Complementary Therapy to reduce Challenging Behaviors - This cached page may reference images which are no longer available. On Google

http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:M1QWU_bkO6wJ:www.dementia.com.au/papers_2002/Toni%2520Doherty_Pilar_Uzabeaga_Assessing_the_effectiveness.htm+%22Assessing+the+effectiveness+of+Complementary+Therapy+to+reduce+Challenging+Behaviors%22&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

The Kevala Centre is a World-wide accredited Distance Learning organisation for Holistic Therapies: Link to aroma page and many storys:

http://www.kevala.co.uk/aromatherapy/index.cfm

The Institute of Dynamic Aromatherapy - A good resource with more links

http://www.theida.com

The Atlantic Institute of Aromatherapy, located in Tampa, Florida, was established in 1989 to provide quality information, education, and certification in the field of Aromatherapy. The Institute's mission is to further the education standards in all aspects of Aromatherapy, including USA certification, by providing a comprehensive resource for the professional or lay person interested in this fast-growing holistic therapy.

http://atlanticinstitute.com/index.html

Aromatherapy: Scent & Psyche. A Good Book

By Peter & Kate Damian Healing Arts Press 1995

U.S. Government is investigating aroma as complementary therapy!

What Is Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM)? NCCAM, National Institutes of Health

http://nccam.nih.gov/health/whatiscam/#d1

The Scientist 15[24]:22, Dec. 10, 2001

Great series of articles

But what of the other senses - smell and taste, will these ever have a role to play in VR applications?

The Five Senses and Beyond

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/richard_brice/chap01.htm#1_1

What's the 'Scents' of Aromatherapy? Archived on The Wayback Machine 4 U!

http://web.archive.org/web/20031218085405/http://www.drweil.com/app/cda/drw_cda.html-command=TodayQA-questionId=3403-pt=Question

Posts to Ask Dr Stoll BB regarding Aromatherapy

http://askwaltstollmd.com/archives/aroma.html

Aromatherapy Sales Nose Upwards -

Article excerpted from Nutrition Business Journal, April 1999: Niche Markets

http://store.yahoo.com/nbj/arsalnosup1.html

AromaWeb:

AromaWeb provides information and resources especially useful to those interested in essential oils and aromatherapy.

http://www.aromaweb.com/

Related Sites: Not strictly aromatherapy:

LotusLight.net - E-Sacred Site

http://www.LotusLight.net

ALPHA SENSORY™ Experiences:

ALPHA SENSORY invites qualified therapists, healers, and practioners to inner-journey within personal "multisensory environments". These prototype systems bring together sophisticated mind-body technologies into a single synergetic tool integrating wrap-around visuals, 3-D sound, tactile stimulation and a unique, patented aromatherapy delivery system. Personalized experiences with advanced biofeedback interface, totally controllable by the therapist. Both system prototypes are currently located in Ojai, California. Alpha Sensory has complete access to those prototypes and is in the process of developing multisensory software programs for various modalities.

http://alphasensory.com/

"The CENTER" - Healing and Learning Center - New Age - Conceptual Design Image Gallery - A complete New Age Center… … a center created to stimulate balanced growth… … bringing about a better mankind begins by bring about a better man.

Conceptual Design began in 1982. Technology to enable it has been in development since, now it's ready in 2008 .

As proposed, this "New Age Center" was one many similar projects to be undertaken by private groups and foundations during the next several years. Intent on seeing this dream become reality, a group of artists, architects, and philosophers are working, still, toward this common goal. Information pertaining to the design of this center, and other such centers of varying budgets and designs; will be published in a web journal which will include design concepts and details, as well as information about the application of multisensory stimuli... including scent, color, 3-D sound and symbolism... to aid in the effectiveness of such facilities.

Studies in economic feasibility and recommendations concerning business structuring will be made available.

Many spa connections possible in 2008.

http://alphasensory.com/Portfolio/The_Center/

Coloring Therapy An alternative to formal meditation practices with a potential for family and interpersonal team-building skill development. Guidelines and resources to help you inexpensively improve your coping and awareness skills through an enjoyable activity.

http://www.coloringtherapy.com/

The Foundation on Economic Trends (FOET) was established in 1977 and is based in Washington D.C. We have been active in both national and international public policy issues, particularly around the environment, the economy, and biotechnology. FOET examines new trends in science and technology and their impacts on the environment, the economy, culture and society. We engage in litigation, public education, coalition building and grassroots organizing activities to advance our goals.

http://foet.org/

Pyramid of Delightenment

We propose to create a multi-sensory transformational environment enclosed in an illuminated pyramid structure. Housed within the Pyramid is a labyrinthine series of chambers connecting experiential contemplative stations, all of which will lead the participant to delightenment. Profoundly affected by our experience at Burning Man, the design team wishes to offer the gift of "innertainment" to the Playa, encompassing both the individual journey of transformation and the collective spirit of play.

http://inspiritfoundation.com/

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