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The Effects of Loss of Taste and Smell in a Case of Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Thomas A. Fahy ,
Padmal DeSilva ,
Peter Silverstone  and
Gerald F. M. Russell
Thomas A. Fahy*
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF
Padmal DeSilva
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry
Peter Silverstone
Affiliation:
Bethlem Royal and Maudsley Hospital
Gerald F. M. Russell
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry
*
∗Correspondence
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Abstract

A woman with a mixed eating disorder is reported. Her disorder did not remit after a head injury which caused her to lose her sense of taste and smell.

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Brief Reports
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 155 , Issue 6 , December 1989 , pp. 860 - 861
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1989 

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