Woman’s Bizarre Talent Helps Doctors Diagnose Neurological Disorder

Seeing the Stages

As the illness progressed, Joy drew the brown part depleting. By stage 5, "all of the person [was] gone." As she drew the images, Joy was asked if she smelled anything. She confirmed that she "got a whiff" of Parkinson's disease. The sensory neurologist expressed that Joy may have excelled at detecting Parkinson's because she engaged more visual neurons than others when smelling odors.

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