New research suggests that a faltering sense of smell might signal the early stages of Alzheimer's disease, and that an inexpensive, low-tech smell test could spot who needs more extensive screening ...
BOSTON — Something as simple as smelling a scratch-and-sniff card might help doctors spot Alzheimer’s disease years before memory problems begin. New research from Massachusetts General Hospital shows ...
TORONTO ― The University of Pennsylvania Smell Identification Test (UPSIT) has potential as an inexpensive, noninvasive test to help diagnose Alzheimer's disease, a new study shows. In a study of ...
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At long last it is generally acknowledged, on the basis of pathologic and clinical investigations, that one of the earliest symptoms of Alzheimer disease (AD) is impairment of smell function and that ...