{"id":211193,"date":"2025-04-11T13:09:50","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T18:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/an-at-home-smell-test-could-pave-the-way-for-early-detection-of-alzheimers-disease"},"modified":"2025-04-11T13:09:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T18:09:50","slug":"an-at-home-smell-test-could-pave-the-way-for-early-detection-of-alzheimers-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/an-at-home-smell-test-could-pave-the-way-for-early-detection-of-alzheimers-disease","title":{"rendered":"An at-home smell test could pave the way for early detection of Alzheimer\u2019s disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/an-at-home-smell-test-could-pave-the-way-for-early-detection-of-alzheimers-disease2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When it comes to early detection of cognitive impairment, a new study suggests that the nose knows. Researchers from Mass General Brigham have developed olfactory tests\u2014in which participants sniff odor labels that have been placed on a card\u2014to assess people\u2019s ability to discriminate, identify and remember odors. They found that participants could successfully take the test at home and that older adults with cognitive impairment scored lower on the test than cognitively normal adults.<\/p>\n<p>Results are published in Scientific Reports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEarly detection of cognitive impairment could help us identify people who are at risk of Alzheimer\u2019s disease and intervene years before memory symptoms begin,\u201d said senior author Mark Albers, MD, Ph.D., of the Laboratory of Olfactory Neurotranslation, the McCance Center for Brain Health, and Department of Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to early detection of cognitive impairment, a new study suggests that the nose knows. Researchers from Mass General Brigham have developed olfactory tests\u2014in which participants sniff odor labels that have been placed on a card\u2014to assess people\u2019s ability to discriminate, identify and remember odors. They found that participants could successfully take the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}