Dementia Can Cause Lose of Taste
Flavor is the spice of life. The idea of eating and enjoying a meal without taste is unthinkable. But even this very ordinary part of our experience can be diminished with dementia. Knowing this give us even more compassion for our elder friends who, along with losing their memory, may be losing their ability to taste.
New research has revealed evidence that these behaviors are linked to a loss of meaning for flavors, as reported in the June 2010 issue of Elsevier's Cortex.
Dr. Katherine Piwnica-Worms from Washington University in St Louis, Missouri, together with Dr. Jason Warren and colleagues from University College London, investigated the processing of flavor information in patients with semantic dementia, a degenerative disease affecting the temporal lobes of the brain.
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