Taste and olfactory status in a gourmand with a right amygdala lesion Gallo Torre, Milagros Gámiz Ruiz, Fernando Pérez García, Miguel García Del Moral Garrido, Raimundo Rolls, Edmund T. Anterior temporal lobe Amygdala Disgust Gourmand syndrome Olfaction Taste In a patient with a lesion of the right amygdala and temporal pole who had the characteristics of the gourmand syndrome, sensory and hedonic testing was performed to examine the processing of taste, olfactory, and some emotional stimuli. The gourmand syndrome describes a preoccupation with food and a preference for fine eating and is associated with right anterior lesions. It was found that the taste thresholds for sweet, salt, bitter, and sour were normal; that the patient did not dislike the taste of salt (NaCl) at low and moderate concentrations as much as age-matched controls; that this also occurred for monosodium glutamate (MSG); that there were some olfactory differences from normal controls; and that there was a marked reduction in the ability to detect face expressions of disgust. 2024-01-17T13:09:55Z 2024-01-17T13:09:55Z 2014-05-13 info:eu-repo/semantics/article https://hdl.handle.net/10481/86875 10.1080/13554794.2013.791862 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional Taylor and Francis