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Transient Hemiageusia in Cerebrovascular Lateral Pontine Lesions JNNP 77:680-683, Landis,B.N.,et al, 2006 See this aricle in Pubmed Article Abstract This case offers new evidence suggesting that the central gustatory pathway in humans runs ipsilaterally within the pons and crosses at a higher, probably midbrain level. In patients with central lesions, little attention has been given to taste disorders. They may often go unnoticed by the physician and/or the patient. Central lesions involving taste pathways seem to generate perceptions of quantitative taste disorders (hemiageusia or hypogeusia), in contrast to peripheral gustatory lesions that are hardly recognized as quantitative but sometimes as qualitative (dysgeusia) taste disorders by patients.

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