From the October 2016 issue of Massachusetts General Hospital's Mind, Mood, & Memory (MMM)
Use Aromatherapy to Change Your Mood
You may not be well acquainted with how scents affect your mood, but chances are your nose knows.
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That’s because the sense of smell is processed through olfactory receptors that are directly connected to the limbic system, the brain’s ancient emotion center. Before signals are relayed from the limbic system to the cognitive region called the cortex, which is responsible for recognizing the odor, your nose and primitive brain have already generated emotional […]