Posted by Marilee Griffin-Florida on
A dollop of peanut butter and a ruler might be a way to confirm a diagnosis of early-stage Alzheimer’s disease.
Jennifer Stamps, a graduate student in the McKnight Brain Institute Center for Smell and Taste and the University of Florida, came up with the idea of using peanut butter to test for smell sensitivity when she was working with Kenneth Heilman, a professor of neurology at the University of Florida.
Read More: http://www.futurity.org/can-peanut-butter-smell-test-confirm-alzheimers/
Original Study: http://www.jns-journal.com/article/S0022-510X(13)00311-0/abstract