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Ask someone to smell some delicious peanut butter to detect Alzheimers! The ability to smell is associated with the first cranial nerve and is often one of the first things to be affected in cognitive decline, but with Alzheimers patients, the left nostril is significantly more impaired than the right. Thats specific to Alzheimers patients; neither control patients nor those with other cognitive impairment (like dementia) demonstrated that nostril difference. The test? Capping one nostril and measuring the distance at which the patient could detect about a tablespoon of peanut butter In Alzheimers patients, the left nostril had on average, 10 centimeters less range, in terms of odor detection than the right. Read more: popsci/article/science/if-you-can-smell-you-may-not-have-alzheimers#ixzz2hTEIMR2J
Posted on: Sat, 12 Oct 2013 02:27:36 +0000

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