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Taste buds and mood

Posted Oct 01 2008 8:13pm

Remember when the classic doctor's visit began with "stick out your tongue?"

" A Taste of Depression" describes research that may reveal underlying mechanisms of depression and help determine what medicines may work better for each individual.

This has obvious implications for eating disorder research. Could the loss or overactivity of the sense of taste be a contributing factor, a result, or could they feed one another? Could this test help diagnose EDs? Could the better understanding of serotonin and norepinephrine function in depression lead to earlier diagnosis and treatment of more mental illnesses? Could better depression treatment lead to underemployed clinicians who would then take on eating disorders?

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