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If you lose smell, then the brain will shift smell-related resources to other functions. Any large-scale body damage should cause "brain damage," though it's p

If you lose smell, then the brain will shift smell-related resources to other functions. Any large-scale body damage should cause "brain damage," though it's possibly a little misleading to call it that (of course I'm not enough of a neuroscientist to know if that's all that's at play here). related: https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/a-new-theory-of-dreaming https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/a-new-theory-of-dreami...

undoware 5y ago
...except that it's not nasal equipment that's damaged by SARS-CoV-2, it's the 'smell-related resources' themselves (in the brain) that go missing: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaneurology/fullarticle/2766765 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaneurology/fullarticle/2...