Alteration of the Taste for Sweets in Patients Taking Tricyclic Anti-depressives
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We were struck by occasional reports, made voluntarily by some patients that they had recently experienced a remarkable change in their taste for sweets. The patients themselves were surprised to find that they never had any special liking for sweets in the past, but after the beginning of treatment they had developed an excessive preference for sweets. This observation led us to make a deeper probe.
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