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Can peanut butter sniff out early signs of Alzheimer's?

Diagnosing Alzheimer's disease in its early stages has always been challenging — there is no single test that can accurately determine whether a person has Alzheimer's or some other form of dementia.But researchers at the University of Florida's McKnight Brain Institute Center for Smell and Taste believe they may have discovered a simple test that could be used to make a diagnosis of early-stage   Alzheimer's disease   — and it involves peanut butter.The front part of the temporal lobe is one of the first areas of the brain to degenerate in people who have Alzheimer's. That region of the brain is involved in   processing smells   and forming new memories, and those two skills are among the first to be affected in cases of cognitive decline such as Alzheimer's disease. [ Top 10 Mysterious Diseases ][sidebar]So Jennifer Stamps, a graduate student at the University of Florida, devised a simple way of testing the smell acuity of patients. Her test is based on the fact that people with Alzh...

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