Dogs demonstrate the existence of an epileptic seizure odour in humans
Super interesting.<p>I also just want to note to people that seizures aren&#x27;t always the kind that they&#x27;re portrayed, with the person falling to the ground and shaking.<p>Couple years ago I had these events start which turned out to be partial temporal lobe seizures. I would get a big flash of deja vu, my right arm would tingle starting at the shoulder and creep down to my fingers for about a second, and then I&#x27;d get hit with a tiny thump in my head where for the next few minutes I couldn&#x27;t comprehend. I could still think, and I was able to tell people I was talking to to hold on, and give me a little time before we could start talking again. I had one while reading for example and the words got completely meshed together, where the characters were combined in different orders and didn&#x27;t look understandable at all. I was wondering why the hell I couldn&#x27;t read, and eventually the words started coming back together.<p>The reason I&#x27;m saying this is that it took more a while to realize these are considered seizures. I didn&#x27;t know what was going on and didn&#x27;t think it was anything much until they started coming one a day and that thump getting a little bigger each time.<p>This kind of seizure was listed in the paper as one of the test subjects. Someone I know was the one to tell me that those events might be a seizure, and I don&#x27;t know how much longer it&#x27;d have been for me to come to that realization on my own. So maybe me saying this can help someone else. That, or get a dog that can smell seizures like in the paper!