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Smell Disorders Clinic, Texas: Assessment and treatment of taste and smell disorders.

Association for Chemoreception Sciences (AChemS): Association established to advance the understanding of chemosensory mechanisms by bringing to one forum the variety of different scientific disciplines currently being used to approach the chemical senses

Chemosensory Perception Lab at UCSD- chemical senses research: The Chemosensory Perception Lab in the Department of Surgery at University of California, San Diego performs research on how people perceive chemicals and how chemicals exert short-term effects on people.

Duke University - Taste and Smell Lab: This page is the gateway to the Taste and Smell Lab at Duke University

Human olfactory receptor repertoire: Olfactory receptor sequences that represent essentially the complete repertoire of functional human odorant receptors.

Monell Chemical Senses Center: A scientific institute for multidisciplinary research on taste, smell and chemosensory irritation

Nasal Dysfunction Clinic: Located at the University of California, San Diego.

NIDCD Health Information on Smell and Taste Disorders: This site contains information about the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), one of the National Institutes of Health. The NIDCD conducts and supports research and disseminates information on disorders of human communication, including hearing, balance, smell...

Olfaction: Current understanding of the physiological basis for olfaction (sense of smell) and the possible molecular interactions that specify odorant signaling.

Olfaction: From Genome Mining to Molecular Recognition Statistics: Lecture on olfaction by Doron Lancet at UCSB

Olfactory Receptors: The Human Olfactory Receptor Data Exploratorium; information on the OR proteins, their structure, function and evolution. A set of analysis tools is provided.

Representations of Olfactory Information in the Brain: Research article on olfaction (sense of smell).

Rocky Mountain Taste and Smell Center (RMTSC).: The Department of Otolaryngology, University of Colorado School of Medicine.

SenseLab: Senselab Home

Smell and Taste Disorders: A discussion as to how smell and taste works, the four basic tastes, what causes the disorders, diagnosing and a discussion on whether they can be treated.

Smell and Taste Disorders: The Merck Manual takes an extensive look at discussion on diagnosis and treatment.

Smell and Taste Disorders: Smell and taste problems can have a big impact on our lives. Because these senses contribute substantially to our enjoyment of life, our desire to eat, and be social, smell and taste disorders can be serious.

Smell Research by Tim Jacob: Cardiff University

Taste and Smell Loss: Risk for Disease?: A reduced, distorted, or lost sense of taste or smell represent serious risk factors for heart disease, diabetes, stroke, and other illnesses that require adherence to specific dietary regimens.

The ChemoReception Web: The sensory, biological, and chemical aspects of how tastes, smells, and pheromones are received, perceived, and then translated into responses and actions.

The Sense of Scents, the Sense of Self: Smell and its interaction with the brain, and in particular the relationship between smell and memory.

The Sense of Taste: Answers questions about the sense of taste.

The Smell and Taste Disorders Clinic, Syracuse: Syracuse, New York region's only Level-1 trauma center (University Hospital) with more than 80 specialty clinics and four colleges.

The Smell and Taste Treatment and Research Foundation, Ltd.: Focused on working to better the understanding of and proactively utilize the body's senses. (Chicago, IL)

The Taste and Smell Clinic: The Taste and Smell Clinic is the major clinical and research facility in the US where patients with taste and smell dysfunction are evaluated and treated.

UConn Taste and Smell Center: Our Taste and Smell Clinic uses a multidisciplinary approach to determine the etiology of a patient's taste and smell disorder. University of Connecticut Health Center.