"As we focused on ictal odour and not on pre-ictal, we did not make assumptions on seizure-alerting abilities of dogs, or on the timing of such anticipation, in

"As we focused on ictal odour and not on pre-ictal, we did not make assumptions on seizure-alerting abilities of dogs, or on the timing of such anticipation, in this study." Would be far more interesting if they could get it to work before the seizures. It's not terribly surprising to me that they can detect post-seizure odor, it's a pretty violent physiological event where I'm sure all sorts of things get secreted. It would be remarkable if they could pick up on a pre-seizure odor like how is described in the introduction....