A simple test of a person’s ability to identify odors and noninvasive eye exams might someday help doctors learn whether their patients are at risk of Alzheimer’s disease, according to new studies. Research by Reisa Sperling, professor of neurology at Brigham and Women's Hospital, is featured. Matthew E. Growdon, a fifth-year student in a joint program between Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health, was one of the researchers on the study.
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