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The Effects of Loss of Taste and Smell in a Case of Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 January 2018
Abstract
A woman with a mixed eating disorder is reported. Her disorder did not remit after a head injury which caused her to lose her sense of taste and smell.
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