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B Roseburg

Publications and source records attributed to B Roseburg.

At least 19 recordsLinked to original sources
PubMed1987

[Classification and definition of smell and taste disorders].

The smell and taste disorders are defined in terms due to two principles - the type and site of lesion. The quantitative dysosmias (anosmia, hyposmia, hyperosmia) correspond to the quantitative dysgeusias (ageusia, hypogeusia, hypergeusia) and the qualitative dysosmias (parosmia, pseudo-osmia, phantosmia, agnosmia) correspond to the qualitative dysgeusias (parageusia, pseudogeusia, phantogeusia, agnogeusia). Due to the site of lesion we can differentiate between respiratory, epithelial, combined, neural, and central dysosmias as well as epithelial, neural, and central dysgeusias. Typical examples are demonstrated, denying other classifications and terms as not precisely enough or negligible ones.

Ageusia↗
PubMed1980

[Taste and psychotherapy].

In 86 patients, the acuity of the chemical senses has been proved before and after a psychotherapeutic treatment over seven weeks in hospital. There were no fundamental changes in smell, whereas the taste acuity has changed. After treatment, the latter, however, was less in those patients who had previously considered themselves less acute. Among the large number of the other results, the following fact is most remarkable: the successful treatment correlates with a diminished bitter acuity, or vice versa. Conclusions and prognoses cannot yet be drawn from this for a special case, but further investigations of this special relation seem to be effectual.

Discrimination Learning↗
PubMed1977

Loss of taste in the elderly: sex differences.

The sensation of taste was tested in 280 normal people of all ages and both sexes. The sensitivity for the basic tastes decreased with increasing age, but more in men than in women; there was no sex difference in people under the age of 40. The different smoking habits of men and women did not explain this finding. It is suggested that there is a sex-specific decrease in the taste sensitivity with aging.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1975

Schirmer test of lacrimation. Its clinical importance.

Lacrimation was tested by a modified Schrimer test, ie, by the soaking of strips of filter paper hooked into th lower conjunctival sac. The test is advocated for the topical diagnosis of facial-nerve lesions. Lacrimation was found to be independent of age and sex. There were, however, large inter- and intra-subject variations. Nevertheless, the difference between the two eyes of a given healthy person was much less than that between the eyes of two different persons, making the test clinically useful. In a given patient, a bilateral difference may be assumed to be significant when the lesser value does not exceed 27% of the larger one. Such a test result is indicative of a supraganglionic facial-nerve lesion.

Adolescent↗