Sense of smell holds the key to diagnosis and treatment in early stage Parkinson's disease

A fast, simple and non invasive test of the ability to smell may be an important tool to screen people who are likely to develop Parkinson's disease (PD), in which motor symptoms only become evident at a later stage of the disease, a German scientist will tell the annual conference of the European Society of Human Genetics today (Saturday). Dr Silke Nuber, from the Department of Medical Genetics, University of Tuebingen, Germany, will say that her team's research could help in the development of treatments for the early stages of the disease...

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