Parosmia
Subject in Medicine
Parosmia has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including TED Radio Hour. 1 person has made recorded remarks about it.
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Paule JosephChemosensory researcher and senior investigator at the National Institutes of Health, co-director of the National Smell and Taste Center
Joseph says her team is scanning parosmia patients with fMRI to understand what brain signals change during smell distortion.
“we're getting individuals with parosmia and putting them inside a scanner to understand through, you know, fMRI, just scanning their brain, what signals are changing?”
TED Radio Hour: Big mysteries explained through your senses (Sep 18, 2026) · Listen from 32:59
Joseph says a small group of COVID patients developed parosmia, in which familiar smells become distorted, which she considers harder to live with than total loss.
“some of them have developed parasmia, which is an absence of distortion. For example, your coffee smells like burning garbage”
TED Radio Hour: Big mysteries explained through your senses (Sep 18, 2026) · Listen from 31:49
Podcasts
- TED Radio Hour · 1 episode
Episodes
Big mysteries explained through your sensesTED Radio Hour · Sep 18, 2026 · 50 min
Manoush Zomorodi talks with astronomer Mark Whittle, smell researcher Paule Joseph and artist Yiyun Kang about perceiving hidden realities through the senses.