心因性味覚障害症例の検討

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Taste impairment was studied in six female patients . Two complained only of decreased taste sense, while the others complained of dysgeusia . Five of them complained of both taste impairment and glossodynia. Suprathreshold taste function was tested by the whole mouth method, the quadrant test of taste recognition, electrogustmetry, and psychosomatic counsel ing and psychological tests. The results of electrogustometry agreed with the results of taste thresholds in only one case. Hypogeusia and dysgeusia improved simultaneously or disappeared after the administration of a minor tranquilizer . These results comfirm that psychosomatic taste disorders may have many causes, such as psychosomatic, systematic and l ocal factors.