Why bother testing the sense of smell?

Practical Neurology

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 224-229

  Hawkes, Christopher ^a   Shah, Mussadiq ^a  

^a Essex Neuroscience Centre   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANOSMIA; ARTICLE; CACAO; COFFEE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FRUIT; GLYCYRRHIZA; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OLFACTORY NERVE; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; PARKINSON DISEASE; PERCEPTION DISORDER; REFSUM DISEASE; SCREENING TEST; SENSORY NERVE CONDUCTION; SIDEROSIS; TRIGEMINAL NERVE;

EID: 23844494815     PISSN: 14747758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-7766.2005.00319.x     Document Type: Article

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