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Some patients given a kind of nerve block experienced a substantially improved sense of smell afterward.

It's the olfactory part of the brain which is linked to smell that saw the biggest changes after covid. the hope is the brain can recover. what smell training does is it forces you to mindfully take in the smell, allow it to go back into your nose, and then to think about what it is that you're smelling. this study is just the start. it looked at earlier variants of covid. it's unclear whether omicron caused the same changes. the hope is further scans will help us to understand the legacy left by covid—i9. rebecca morelle, bbc news. hong kong has reported more than 25,000 new coronavirus inf...

In the parts of the brain related to the sense of smell and memory. and those who had been infected found it harder to perform complex mental tasks. the scientists have been trying to assess what the changes mean. the infected participants also had more difficulties, greater difficulties in performing complex tasks, compared with those who did not get infected. and we can relate that to how much of their brain had shrunk. so, yes, it does have real life consequences. what's not yet clear is whether the changes are permanent or if they can be reversed. it can get scary to hear about the fact th...

Children's Hospital Colorado says patients enrolled in a smell training study saw some improvement in their ability to smell.

Many recovered patients of COVID-19 have developed a condition known as parosmia, which is marked by damaged olfactory sensors.