A very rare side-effect of amlodipine is dysguesia. A review of the literature produced only one case. We report a case about a female with essential hypertension on drug treatment with amlodipine developed loss of taste sensation. Condition moderately improved on stoppage of the drug for 25 days. We conclude that amlodipine can cause dysguesia. Here, we describe the clinical presentation and r...

Hypoglossal nerve palsy (HNP) may follow fracture of the base of the skull. Of the various aetiologies described, trauma is one of the least frequent. HNP can easily be missed at the time of injury and awareness of this rare complication may assist in early diagnosis. A case of HNP after a head injury associated with the loss of taste sensation on the paralysed side of the tongue and aerocoele ...

Almost all patients (90-100%) who have undergone radiation treatment (RT) of head and neck region develop at least one oral complication. Oral complications of head and neck RT can be acute and chronic. Acute complications occur during RT and include oral mucositis, dry mouth and taste sensation disorder. Chronic complications occur several weeks, months or years after RT cessation, and include...

This study documents an unusual case of developmental synaesthesia, in which speech sounds induce an involuntary sensation of taste that is subjectively located in the mouth. JIW shows a highly structured, non-random relationship between particular combinations of phonemes (rather than graphemes) and the resultant taste, and this is influenced by a number of fine-grained phonemic properties (e....

Taste is a chemical sensation that primarily detects nutrients present in food, and maintenance of taste sensations important for ensuring older people have balanced nutritional diet. While several reports suggested sensitivity changes with age, the molecular mechanisms underlying this phenomenon are still unclear. Previous studies on matter focused mainly relationship between aging detection s...

T he ability to taste food is a life-and-death matter. Failure to recognise food with a high enough caloric content could mean a slow death from malnutrition. Failure to detect a poison could result in near-instant expiration. And now, as researchers begin to understand some of the nuts and bolts of taste perception, it seems that the sense of taste may also have more subtle effects on health. ...

Norwich’s Entropy Theory of Perception reveals a startling conclusion: that Stevens’ Law with an Index of 1, a power function stating direct proportionality between perceived taste intensity and stimulus concentration, arises purely from theory. Norwich’s theorizing starts with extraordinary hypotheses. First, “multiple, parallel receptor-neuron units” without collaterals “carry essentially the...