Can you imagine smelling something rotten, like weeks-old meat or cigarette smoke, but there is nothing around you? This may be a phantom smell, or phantosmia — one way that your brain can play tricks ...

Costa Fantis, right, with son Antonio, who shares how symptoms of his father's brain tumor manifested as phantom smells. A “fit and healthy” man was given the devastating diagnosis that he had an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Noticing a phantom scent of burnt toast isn't actually a sign of an oncoming stroke. SDI Productions via Getty Images It makes ...

Phantom smells are unusual neurological symptoms where individuals perceive odours that aren't present, often linked to seizures originating in the insula, a deep brain structure ...