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#63 - Dogs Diagnosing Diseases - Clara Wilson | Queen's University Belfast
Clara Wilson is an animal psychologist at Queen's University Belfast in the UK. She studies how dogs can help humans with medical conditions. Today, we talk about how dogs' powerful sense of smell can be used to diagnose diseases like cancer, COVID-19, seizures, and more!
To learn more about Clara's work, visit: https://www.linkedin.com/in/clara-wilson-990a61162/
Timeline:
00:00 Introduction
03:26 How dogs help humans
07:54 How dogs detect diseases
14:20 How dogs are trained
19:00 Dogs vs. smell technology
20:48 Which dogs are best?
23:39 What's next in the field?
19:22 Solutions to improve antifungals
21:42 Neglected areas in the field
P.S. Some fancy words Clara used:
- Service/Assistant Animal: An animal trained to help someone with a disability with a specific task, like navigation.
- Medical Alert Dogs: Dogs using their sense of smell to detect medical conditions like seizures.
- Olfactory epithelium: an area at the back of your nose that's responsible for sensing smells.
- Olfactory Bulb: the part of the brain responsible for processing smell senses.
- Olfaction: Smell
- Blood plasma: the liquid part of blood
- Hypoglycemic Unawareness: Being unable to tell when your blood sugar levels are dropping too much.
- Valence: a psychological term for what everyday people call 'good' vs. 'bad'
- Mass spectrometry: A technique to analyse the mass of different chemical compounds.
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By The Knowledge ArchivesClara Wilson is an animal psychologist at Queen's University Belfast in the UK. She studies how dogs can help humans with medical conditions. Today, we talk about how dogs' powerful sense of smell can be used to diagnose diseases like cancer, COVID-19, seizures, and more!
To learn more about Clara's work, visit: https://www.linkedin.com/in/clara-wilson-990a61162/
Timeline:
00:00 Introduction
03:26 How dogs help humans
07:54 How dogs detect diseases
14:20 How dogs are trained
19:00 Dogs vs. smell technology
20:48 Which dogs are best?
23:39 What's next in the field?
19:22 Solutions to improve antifungals
21:42 Neglected areas in the field
P.S. Some fancy words Clara used:
- Service/Assistant Animal: An animal trained to help someone with a disability with a specific task, like navigation.
- Medical Alert Dogs: Dogs using their sense of smell to detect medical conditions like seizures.
- Olfactory epithelium: an area at the back of your nose that's responsible for sensing smells.
- Olfactory Bulb: the part of the brain responsible for processing smell senses.
- Olfaction: Smell
- Blood plasma: the liquid part of blood
- Hypoglycemic Unawareness: Being unable to tell when your blood sugar levels are dropping too much.
- Valence: a psychological term for what everyday people call 'good' vs. 'bad'
- Mass spectrometry: A technique to analyse the mass of different chemical compounds.