A common thread: No pain, no smell
Friday, March 25, 2011 - 11:03
in Psychology & Sociology
(PhysOrg.com) -- In a recent study published in Nature by Jan Weiss and Frank Zufall of the University of Saarland, School of Medicine, a connection has been made between the inability to feel pain and anosmia - the inability to smell. The connection discovered involves the sodium ion channel called Nav1.7.