A taste of depression

May 29th, 2007 | Category: Anxiety Disorders

But precisely how depression might affect taste is unknown. Dr Lucy Donaldson from Physiology and Dr Jan Melichar from Community-based Medicine devised a pop quiz to find out.

Many depressed public have reduced appetite and in the severely depressed that may be linked to a reduced ability to detect different

tastes.

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© 2002-2007 University of Bristol Is there really a direct effect - on the taste buds, for example - or could an obvious effect simply be due to a general loss of interest in things?

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