Head trauma and olfactory function

TL;DR: This thorough compendium of current knowledge of human chemosensation is clearly the best work available on the topic, but suffers the inevitable shortcomings of such collections: with each chapter by a different author, there is a certain disjointedness and overlapping.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the presence of both quantitative and qualitative smell/taste dysfunctions in patients who suffered from COVID-19, and found that around one-third of patients who recover from the treatment may have persistent qualitative dysfunction in smell and taste domains.

TL;DR: In this article, a systematic literature review using PubMed, Embase, Cochrane Library, and Web of Science was conducted to identify studies assessing olfactory change in patients with posttraumatic olfastic dysfunction after olfaction training.

TL;DR: Among 40 patients who developed total anosmia as a result of closed-head injury, virtually all had major vocational problems during the two or more years after being medically cleared to return to work.

TL;DR: This self-administratered test now makes it possible to rapidly and accurately assess general olfactory function in the laboratory, clinic, or through the mail without complex equipment or space-consuming stores of chemicals.

TL;DR: The implications of Taste and Smell Disorders, Conditioned Flavour Aversions, Head Injury and Taste, Iatrogenic Causes of Taste Disturbances: Radiation Therapy, Surgery, Medication Other Chemosensory Systems are examined.

TL;DR: The material in the fifth edition is scientifically and consensus based, and is prepared by society experts, and includes significant improvements in major chapters including cardiology, respiratory, muscular-skeletal, and skin.

TL;DR: The olfactory test administered to patients at the Connecticut Chemosensory Clinical Research Center combines stability of outcome with sensitivity to variables known to affect olfaction (age, sex).