A5022018162- Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies
- Biochemical Analysis and Sensing Techniques
- Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies
- Ear Surgery and Otitis Media
- Respiratory and Cough-Related Research
- Streptococcal Infections and Treatments
SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University
2023
Rockefeller University
2017
Significance Currently available smell testing methods can be confounded by the lack of prior experience or insensitivity to odorants used in test. This introduces a source bias into clinical tests aimed at detecting patients with olfactory dysfunction. We have developed that use mixtures 30 molecules average out variability sensitivity individual molecules. Because these an unfamiliar and are nonsemantic, their eliminates differences test performance due familiarity smells words describe...
Abstract Smell dysfunction is a common and underdiagnosed medical condition that can have serious consequences. It also an early biomarker of Alzheimer’s disease precedes detectable memory loss. Clinical tests evaluate the sense smell face two major challenges. First, human sensitivity to individual odorants varies significantly, leading potential misdiagnosis people with otherwise normal but insensitivity test odorant. Second, prior familiarity odor stimuli bias performance. We developed...