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Jo-Ann wrote: >Hi, can anybody help me with this? My father 63/3 says he has no sense >of smell since he's been diagnosed with Parkinson's? Or maybe its the >medication he's on? Is there anything that can help? > I have read that there is an olfactory (smell) center in the brain located very close to the substantia nigra, and it usually takes early retirement along with our dopamine-producing cells. In fact, loss of sense of smell is so common in PD that it is a component of Dr. Erwin Montgomery's "early detection" screening here at U of A hospital. Kathie Tollifsom [log in to unmask]