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Taste Loss and Taste Phantoms: A Role of Inhibition in the Taste System

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Olfaction and Taste XI

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Patients often fail to notice taste loss even when their taste systems are severely damaged. Pfaffmann [1,2] presented his own case of Ramsey-Hunt’s syndrome (cranial nerve damage produced by the virus responsible for chicken pox) at a meeting of the Association for Chemoreception Sciences. The virus destroyed taste on the left side of his mouth yet he had no subjective awareness of loss in everyday taste experience.

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  1. Department of Surgery, Section of Otolaryngology, Yale University School of Medicine, PO Box 3333, New Haven, CT, 06510, USA

    Linda Bartoshuk, John Kveton & Ken Yanagisawa

  2. New Jersey Dental School, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark, NJ, USA

    Frank Catalanotto

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  1. Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hokkaido University, N-13 W-6, Kita-ku, Sapporo, 060, Japan

    Kenzo Kurihara D.S. (Professor) (Professor)

  2. Animal Behavior and Intelligence, Division of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University, N-10 W-8, Kita-ku, Sapporo, 060, Japan

    Noriyo Suzuki D.S. (Associate Professor) (Associate Professor)

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Bartoshuk, L., Kveton, J., Yanagisawa, K., Catalanotto, F. (1994). Taste Loss and Taste Phantoms: A Role of Inhibition in the Taste System. In: Kurihara, K., Suzuki, N., Ogawa, H. (eds) Olfaction and Taste XI. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-68355-1_232

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