If your sense
of taste or smell is impaired, you're missing out on some of the
most basic pleasures life has to offer.
Few health professionals recognize the seriousness and impact of these problems, and even fewer know how to properly diagnose and cure them.
That's
why Dr. Robert I. Henkin established the Taste
and Smell Clinic over 40 years ago. He's spent a career researching,
writing, diagnosing, and curing the problems that cause an
estimated 21 million Americans to suffer loss or impairment
of these vital senses.
Taste
and Smell Impact Test (TASIT) will help you understand how taste
and smell dysfunction may affect your life.
Recent Presentation
Sonic hedgehog (Shh) in parotid saliva is a cell signaling moiety that acts on stem cells in taste buds to maintain normal taste function. Experimental Biology 2017 Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, April 24, 2017. A presentation by Dr. Robert Henkin to conference attendees.
Smell and taste dysfunction are markers of early and persistent pathology following traumatic brain injury (TBI) by Henkin RI, Abdelmeguid M., J Neurosci Cogn Stud. 2018;2:1007. [Open Access]
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