Category: Cognition

Can the scent of essential oils improve memory?

From Medscape, August 8th 2023. Inhaling a pleasant aroma during sleep has been linked to an improvement in memory, small-scale early research suggests. Researchers randomly assigned 43 older adults, aged 60 – 85 years, to receive either nightly exposure to essential oil scents delivered via a diffuser (n = 20; mean [SD] age, 70.1 [6.6]…