Dogs can recognise the scent of someone having an epileptic seizure

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Dogs can recognise the scent of someone having an epileptic seizure

New Scientist, Sam Wong, 28 March 2019

In each test, the dogs had to choose between seven scent samples from a single person, only one of which was collected after a seizure. Each dog completed nine tests involving samples from people they hadn’t encountered before.

Three of the dogs scored 100 per cent. The other two identified the correct sample in two-thirds of the tests.

This shows for the first time that, despite people having different body odours, an epileptic seizure has a distinctive scent profile that dogs can learn to recognise. We don’t yet know what molecules the dogs are detecting, but this is an interesting subject for future research, says Catala.

The Scientific reports article:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-40721-4