Supertasting, earaches and head injury: Genetics and pathology alter our taste worlds

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 79-87

  Bartoshuk, L M ^a   Duffy, V B ^b   Reed, D ^c   Williams, A ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bitter; Genetics; Head trauma; Otitis media; PROP; PTC; Taste

Indexed keywords

ALLELISM; CONFERENCE PAPER; GENETICS; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; OTALGIA; OTITIS MEDIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASTE ACUITY; TASTE BUD; TASTE DISORDER;

BRAIN INJURIES; EARACHE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; OTITIS MEDIA; QUESTIONNAIRES; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TASTE;

EID: 0029655776     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0149-7634(95)00042-D     Document Type: Article

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