Study of taste and smell in epileptics

Abstract

The issue of disorders of general and special sensitivity in case of epilepticus was outlined by Echeveria as early as 1870, which, noting the disorder of sensitivity in epileptics, also overshadowed disorders in the area of ​​the higher sense organs, pointed to deafness, loss of taste, and weakening of vision observed with epileptics. Thomsen and Oppenheim, studying in 94 epileptics skin sensitivity, muscle sense, visual field, hearing, taste and smell, 33 observed a disorder of sensitivity. The authors divided all disorders into short-term and persistent, and persistent disorders were observed in patients with long-standing seizures, in the weak-minded; the authors attached great importance to the change in the psyche of epileptics, but the epileptic seizure itself or its nature, in their opinion, does not have a particular significance for the appearance of these disorders. During attacks of somatic epilepsy, no sensory disturbances were observed.

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