A more recent study from Retina Implant showed even greater promise, with videos showing one previously blind patient who could
identify apples and bananas, and who could tell when his name had been misspelled.
Not exact matches
Alex made up words like «banery,» a combination of
banana and cherry that he used to
identify an
apple and «banacker,» a combination of
banana and cracker that he used to communicate his dislike for dried
bananas.
Using a method called static headspace — multi-capillary column — gas chromatography — ion mobility spectrometry (SHS - MCC - GC - IMS), the team
identified six main VOCs contributing to the smell: butyric acid (strong, rancid butter - like odor), dimethyl disulfide (unpleasant, onion - like odor), dimethyl trisulfide (powerful odor), 2 - heptanone (
banana - like fruity odor), 2 - nonanone (fruity, floral, fatty, herbaceous odor)
and 2 - octanone (
apple - like odor).
But by putting migraine patients on very restricted diets,
and then adding foods back into the diet, one at a time, researchers have been able to
identify several common food triggers, which I call the «migraine dirty dozen»:
apples,
bananas, chocolate, citrus fruits, corn, dairy products, eggs, meat, nuts, onions, tomatoes,
and wheat.