title: Cases of two patients whose food aversions disappeared following severe traumatic brain injury.
abstract: Following traumatic brain injury (TBI) the complete disappearance of food aversions was observed in the cases of two patients. In one of the cases, a young female, this change in her food aversion was manifested several months after the TBI, from the time when she was able to eat normally. The other patient, a young man, exhibited the disappearance of his food aversion immediately after recovery from his unconscious state following TBI. These results indicate that the disappearance of food aversions was a consequence of TBI.
authors.affiliation: Division of Nursing, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Japan.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fujii
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Fujita
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hiramatsu
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Miyamoto
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000855:Anorexia / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D001066:Appetite; D001930:Brain Injuries / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D013651:Taste Disorders / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed