Doty, Richard L. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8378-2623
Tourbier, Isabelle
Neff, Jessica K.
Silas, Jonathan
Turetsky, Bruce
Moberg, Paul
Kim, Taehoon
Pluta, John
French, Jaqueline
Sharan, Ashwini D.
Sperling, Michael J.
Mirza, Natasha
Risser, Anthony
Baltuch, Gordon
Detre, John A.
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (RO1 DC04278)
Article History
Received: 6 April 2018
Revised: 26 April 2018
Accepted: 27 April 2018
First Online: 16 May 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: RLD is President and major shareholder of Sensonics International, the company that manufactures and distributes olfactory and gustatory tests, including the commercial version of the University of Pennsylvania Smell Identification Test (UPSIT) used in this study. The remaining authors report no potential conflicts with commercial relationships of direct relevance to the current research.
: The study was approved by the University of Pennsylvania’s Office of Regulatory Affairs. The study was performed in accordance with the ethical standards laid down in the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments. All participants were paid $20/hour for their time.
: Informed written consent was obtained from all participants.