Open AccessAdvances in Understanding Parosmia: An fMRI Study
Author(s) -
Emilia Iannilli,
Donald A. Leopold,
David E. Hornung,
Thomas Hummel
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
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Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.481
H-Index - 44
eISSN - 1423-0275
pISSN - 0301-1569
DOI - 10.1159/000500558
Subject(s) - psychology , functional magnetic resonance imaging , neuroscience
A number of patients with a diminished sense of smell also can suffer from parosmia. These patients with such a qualitative smell disorder are often more severely affected than patients exhibiting only a quantitative smell disorder. Qualitative smell disorders have heretofore been poorly investigated. The focus of the present study was, using functional MRI, to compare the central processing of olfactory stimulation in patients with qualitative smell disorders.