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Health Senses Smell and Taste

See also:

• Health: Alternative: Aromatherapy  (103)
• Health: Beauty: Perfumes and Scents  (15)
• Health: Conditions and Diseases: Ear, Nose and Throat  (149)
• Health: Medicine: Surgery: Otorhinolaryngology  (100)

• Association for Chemoreception Sciences (AChemS) - Association established to advance the understanding of chemosensory mechanisms by bringing to one forum the variety of different scientific disciplines currently being used to approach the chemical senses
• The ChemoReception Web - Sensory, biological, and chemical aspects of how tastes, smells, and pheromones are received and perceived. Includes a comprehensive index of scientific abstracts.
• Chemosensory Perception Lab at UCSD- chemical senses research - The Chemosensory Perception Lab in the Department of Surgery at University of California, San Diego performs research on how people perceive chemicals and how chemicals exert short-term effects on people.
• Human olfactory receptor repertoire - Olfactory receptor sequences that represent essentially the complete repertoire of functional human odorant receptors.
• Monell Chemical Senses Center - A scientific institute for multidisciplinary research on taste, smell and chemosensory irritation.
• Nasal Dysfunction Clinic - Located at the University of California, San Diego.
• Olfaction - Current understanding of the physiological basis for olfaction (sense of smell) and the possible molecular interactions that specify odorant signaling.
• Olfaction: From Genome Mining to Molecular Recognition Statistics - Lecture on olfaction by Doron Lancet at UCSB
• Representations of Olfactory Information in the Brain - Research article on olfaction (sense of smell).
• Rocky Mountain Taste and Smell Center (RMTSC). - The Department of Otolaryngology, University of Colorado School of Medicine.
• The Sense of Scents, the Sense of Self - Smell and its interaction with the brain, and in particular the relationship between smell and memory.
• The Sense of Taste - Answers questions about the sense of taste.
• SenseLab - Database devoted to olfactory receptors.
• Smell and Taste Disorders - Provides an overview about how smell and taste work, the main causes of disorders of these senses, and the diagnoses and treatments of them.
• Smell and Taste Disorders - The Merck Manual takes an look at discussion on diagnosis and treatment.
• The Smell and Taste Treatment and Research Foundation, Ltd. - Focused on working to better the understanding of and proactively utilize the body's senses. (Chicago, IL)
• Smell Research by Tim Jacob - A Professor at Cardiff University, Wales, this site lists information on his research and teaching interests. It includes information on brain activity related to smell, which may be of interest to anosmics.
• Taste & Smell Disorders Clinic, Texas - Assessment and treatment of taste and smell disorders.
• The Taste and Smell Clinic - Located in Washington, D.C. Information about the clinic, diagnosis, treatment, FAQs, research and contact details.
• UConn Taste and Smell Center - Our Taste and Smell Clinic uses a multidisciplinary approach to determine the etiology of a patient's taste and smell disorder. University of Connecticut Health Center.