[Comment] Detection of neurodegenerative disease using olfaction
Clinical manifestations of cognitive, sensory, or motor impairment detected by a routine examination routinely serve as beacons or pointers that alert and orient neurologists to the possibility of an ongoing and often covert neurodegenerative disease process, and they subsequently assist in differential diagnosis. Many chronic neurological diseases (eg, Parkinson's disease or Alzheimer's disease) are still diagnosed in the same way they were diagnosed a century ago, by carefully listening to and observing patients and their symptoms.
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