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Smell and taste disorders
Disorders of the chemical senses are frequent. They can severely affect our lives. Appropriate testing is needed to determine the nature of the patient's complaints. Because many chemosensory disorders are secondary to a wide variety of diseases, olfactory or gustatory complaints may help in establishing certain differential diagnoses, e.g. in Alzheimer's disease. In turn, treatment of the unde...
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Introduction Since the origin of life in the primordial soup, the survival of all organisms has depended on their ability to detect and respond to chemicals in their environment. Today, animal chemosensation— smell and taste—relies on sensory circuits that recognize diverse external chemical cues and transform them into precise patterns of neuronal activity to evoke the appropriate response (Ac...
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There are five types of taste receptor cell, sweet, salt, bitter, sour, and umami (protein taste). There are 1000 olfactory receptor genes each specifying a different type of receptor each for a set of odors. Tastes are primary, unlearned, rewards and punishers, and are important in emotion. Pheromones and some other olfactory stimuli are primary reinforcers, but for many odors the reward value...
متن کاملThe Neurobiology of Taste and Smell
One day clinical neurologists will wake up to the fact that within the special senses of smell and taste lays an ocean of undiscovered information much of which will be relevant to our understanding of common neurological illness, especially of the degenerative variety. Inevitably the majority of writing on smell and taste is in the non-human domain and this book is no exception. Of the 24 cont...
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A series of experiments investigated the nature of metallic taste reports and whether they can be attributed to the development of a retronasal smell. Two studies showed that the metallic sensation reports following oral stimulation with solutions of FeSO4 were reduced to baseline when the nose was occluded. No such reduction was seen for CuSO4 or ZnSO4, which were more bitter and astringent, r...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal
سال: 1863
ISSN: 0096-6762,1533-4406
DOI: 10.1056/nejm186304230681201