We humans use the five senses of “sight, sound, touch, taste and smell,” to interact with other people and various objects around us. While remote communication with video and speech have become familiar to us lately, DoCoMo is currently working on research aiming at finding ways to communicate via tactile sensation, which is believed to be important in terms of information volume, which comes ...

The Labeled Magnitude Scale (LMS) is a semantic scale of perceptual intensity characterized by a quasi-logarithmic spacing of its verbal labels. The LMS had previously been shown to yield psychophysical functions equivalent to magnitude estimation (ME) when gustatory, thermal and nociceptive stimuli were presented and rated together, and the upper bound of the LMS was defined as the 'strongest ...

Food texture has enormous effects on food preferences. However, the mechanosensory cells and key molecules responsible for sensing the physical properties of food are unknown. Here, we show that akin to mammals, the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, prefers food with a specific hardness or viscosity. This food texture discrimination depends upon a previously unknown multidendritic (md-L) neur...

BACKGROUND At the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, more than 6000 inpatients per year undergo IV saline flushes by prefilled syringe to assess and maintain patency of IV tubing. In studies involving adults, it has been reported that volatile substances may leach from syringe materials into the saline, leading to taste and/or odour disturbances. OBJECTIVE To determine the incidence of t...

To cite: Carswell C, Northey LC, Davies L, et al. Pract Neurol 2015;15:76–79. A 72-year-old man presented with sudden onset of right-sided facial muscle weakness and slurred speech and a 3-day history of fevers, myalgia and sore throat. There was no hyperacusis, change in taste or lacrimation. His history included untreated hepatitis C diagnosed 10 years before, but quiescent at his annual live...

Burning mouth disorder (BMD) is a burning or stinging sensation affecting the oral mucosa, lips and/or tongue, in the absence of clinically visible mucosal lesions. There is a strong female predilection, with the age of onset being approximately 50 years. Affected patients often present with multiple oral complaints, including burning, dryness and taste alterations. The causes of BMD are multif...

It was recently shown that in some subjects capsaicin can evoke bitterness as well as burning and stinging, particularly in the circumvallate (CV) region of the tongue. Because perception of bitterness from capsaicin is characterized by large individual differences, the main goal of the present study was to learn whether people who taste capsaicin as bitter also report bitterness from structura...

/"' *r_ Case No. 1.?Private Pentanah, aged 41 years, admitted into hospital on the 12th February. Health good ; has lately returned from sick leave. Has been suffering from this disease for the last three years, of a milder form, and gets occasional attacks, only limited to the soles of the feet and palms of the hands ; of late the disease gradually extended to the knee and elbow, of a severe t...

Multi-site collapse of the upper airway in sleep-related breathing disorders can be treated with multilevel surgery. Multilevel surgery is defined as simultaneous interventions at two or more levels of the upper respiratory tract. The aim of the present study is to analyse long-term complications of multi-level surgery with or without hyoid suspension. A group of 192 patients with multilevel su...