Smell and Taste Disorders

This is a comprehensive and unique text that details the latest research on smell and taste disorders for use by clinicians and scientists.

Christopher H. Hawkes (Author), Richard L. Doty (Author)

9780521130622, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 25 January 2018

424 pages
23.4 x 15.5 x 2 cm, 0.76 kg

Loss of the sense of smell or taste is often a sign of neurological disease. Evaluating chemosensation (the senses of smell and taste) during neurological examination can help early detection of neurodegenerative conditions such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease. The importance of such testing is now receiving increasingly high profile in the medical curriculum. In this book, olfactory conditions are completely updated and the sense of taste is now included in similar detail. It is written by experts in the field, covering anatomy and physiology of human olfaction and taste, how they can be measured and their relevance to a wide range of major disorders such as diabetes, kidney disease, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease. The 'Olfactory Vector Hypothesis' that suggests a neuropathogen may enter the nose en route to the brain is evaluated in detail. This introduction to smell and taste disorders is an essential guide for neurologists, neurosurgeons, otolaryngologists, medical trainees, and chemosensory scientists.

1. Anatomy and physiology of olfaction
2. Anatomy and physiology of gustation
3. Measurement of olfaction
4. Measurement of gustation
5. Non-neurodegenerative disorders of olfaction
6. Non-neurodegenerative disorders of gustation
7. Neurodegenerative chemosensory disorders
8. Assessment, treatment and medicolegal aspects of chemosensory disorders.

Subject Areas: Neurology & clinical neurophysiology [MJN]