Affiliations
Assistant Director, Monell Chemical Senses Center
Assistant Member, Monell Chemical Senses Center
Education
Ph.D., Experimental Psychology, University of Padova, Italy
Research Summary
I am a psychologist interested in human olfaction across the lifespan. Both my basic and translational work aims at finding ways to use smell as an opportunity to improve health. I use behavioral and physiological methods to understand how odors influence typical and atypical behavior. Recently, I have been chairing the Global Consortium for Chemosensory Research (GCCR) to understand how smell, taste and chemesthesis are affected by COVID-19 and other respiratory disorders, I have co-developed smell tests to facilitate awareness of chemosensory loss and distortion, and I am working to bring new solutions to favor chemosensory recovery.
Keywords
smell, body odors, COVID-19, autism, sensorimotor behavior, consortium research
Representative Publications
Cooper, K.W., Brann, D.H., Farruggia, M.C., Bhuthani, S., Pellegrino, R., Tsukahara, T., Weinreb, C., Joseph, P.V., Larson, E.D., Parma, V., Albers, M.W., Barlow, L.A., Datta, S.R., Di Pizio, A. (2020) COVID 19 and the chemical senses: supporting players take center stage. Neuron, 107(2):219-233. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2020.06.032.
Parma, V., Ohla, K., Veldhuizen, M.G., Niv, M.Y., Kelly, C.E., Bakke, A.J., Cooper, K.W., Bouysset, C., Pirastu, N., Dibattista, M., Kaur, R., Liuzza, M.T., Pepino, M.Y., Schöpf, V., Pereda Loth, V., Olsson, S.B., Gerkin, R.C., Rohlfs Domínguez, P., Albayay, J.‡, Farruggia, M.C., Bhutani, S., Fjaeldstad, A.W., Kumar, R., Menini, A., Bensafi, M., Sandell, M., Konstantinidis, I., Di Pizio, A., Genovese, F., Öztürk, L., Thomas Danguin, T., Frasnelli, J., Boesveldt, S., Saatci, Ö., Saraiva, L.R., Lin, C., Golebiowski, J., Hwang, L.D., Ozdener, M.H., Guàrdia, M.D., Laudamiel, C., Ritchie, M., Havlícek, J., Pierron, D., Roura, E., Navarro, M., Nolden, A.A., Lim, J., Whitcroft, K.L., Colquitt, L.R., Ferdenzi, C., Brindha, E.B., Altundag, A., Macchi, A., Nunez Parra, A., Patel, Z.M., Fiorucci, S., Philpott, C.M., Smith, B.C., Lundström, J.N., Mucignat, C., Parker, J.K., van den Brink, M., Schmuker, M., Fischmeister, F.Ph.S., Heinbockel, T., Shields, V.D.C., Faraji, F., Santamaría, E., Fredborg, W.E.A., Morini, G., Olofsson, J.K., Jalessi, M., Karni, N., D’Errico, A., Alizadeh, R., Pellegrino, R., Meyer, P., Huart, C., Chen, B., Soler, G.M., Alwashahi, M.K., Abdulrahman, O., Welge Lüssen, A., Dalton, P., Freiherr, J., Yan, C.H., de Groot, J.H.B., Voznessenskaya, V.V., Klein, H., Chen, J., Okamoto, M., Sell, E.A., Singh, P.B., Walsh Messinger, J., Archer, N.S., Koyama, S., Deary, V., Roberts, S.C., Yanik, H., Albayrak, S., Martinec Novákov, L., Croijmans, I., Portillo Mazal, P., Moein, S.T., Margulis, E., Mignot, C., Mariño,S., Georgiev, D., Kaushik, P.K., Malnic, B., Wang, H., Seyed Allaei, S., Yoluk, N., Razzaghi, S., Justice, J.M., Restrepo, D., Hsieh, J.W., Reed, D.R., Hummel, T., Munger, S.D., Hayes, J.E. (in press) More than smell – COVID-19 is associated with severe impairment of smell, taste, and chemesthesis. Chemical Senses, bjaa041. doi: 10.1093/chemse/bjaa041.
Pellegrino, R., Cooper, K. W., Di Pizio, A., Joseph, P. V., Bhutani, S., Parma, V. (2020) Corona Viruses and the Chemical Senses: Past, Present, and Future. Chemical Senses, bjaa031. doi: 10.1093/chemse/bjaa031.
Albayay, J., Castiello, U., Parma, V. (2019) Task irrelevant odours affect both response inhibition and response readiness in fast paced Go/No Go task: the case of valence. Scientific Reports, 9(1):19329. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-55977-z.
Mutic, S., Freiherr, J., Cavazzana., A., Rocha, M., Soares, S.C., Parma, V. (2019) The scent of the other women: Body odor-induced behavioral and physiological effects on face categorization. Physiology and Behavior, 210:112562. doi: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2019.112562.
