Study shows: Continuous inhalation of essential oil increases gray matter volume – ScienceDirect
Lets start with the Conclusion:
In this study, continuous inhalation of essential oil was shown to increase the Grey Matter Volume of the healthy female whole brain and its PCC subregion.
What does that even mean?
Grey matter is an essential type of tissue in your brain and spinal cord. Let’s delve into its fascinating functions:
- Function of Grey Matter:
- Information Processing: Grey matter plays a crucial role in processing information. It’s where neurons (nerve cells) communicate with each other, allowing you to think, reason, and perceive the world around you.
- Muscle Control: Grey matter governs voluntary muscle movements. When you decide to raise your hand or take a step, it’s the grey matter at work.
- Sensory Perception: It processes sensory input, allowing you to feel touch, temperature, pain, and other sensations.
- Decision-Making: Grey matter is involved in decision-making processes, memory formation, and emotional regulation.
- Cognition: It’s the seat of human cognition—our ability to learn, reason, and solve problems.
The posterior cingulate cortex (PCC) is a part of the brain that is involved in various cognitive functions, such as attention, memory, awareness, and self-referential processing. It is also a key node of the default mode network, a set of brain regions that are active when the mind is not engaged in a specific task.
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Abstract:
Research into the health benefits of scents is on the rise. However, little is known about the effects of continuous inhalation, such as wearing scents on clothing, on brain structure.
Therefore, in this study, an intervention study was conducted on a total of 50 healthy female people, 28 in the intervention group and 22 in the control group, asking them to wear a designated rose scent on their clothes for a month.
The effect of continuous inhalation of essential oil on the gray matter of the brain was measured by calculating changes in brain images of participants taken before and after the intervention using Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI).
The results showed that the intervention increased the gray matter volume (GMV) of the whole brain and posterior cingulate cortex (PCC) subregion. On the other hand, the GMV of the amygdala and orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) did not change. This study is the first to show that continuous scent inhalation changes brain structure.
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