Tranel and Welsh-Bohmer (2012) identified a patient with extensive damage to his limbic system and orbitofrontal cortex.They found ______.
A)complete anosmia; the patient could smell nothing
B)impaired taste, but there was no deficit in sense of smell
C)intact detection of odors but severely impaired naming, recognition, and discrimination of odors
D)the patient was highly depressed but had a healthy appetite

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Tranel and Welsh-Bohmer (2012) identified that the patient had intact detection of odors but severely impaired naming, recognition, and discrimination of odors. This suggests that the patient had damage to the areas of the brain responsible for higher-order processing of olfactory information, rather than a complete loss of sense of smell (anosmia) or impairment in taste. There is no information in the study about the patient's appetite or level of depression.

Tranel and Welsh-Bohmer (2012) Identified a Patient with Extensive Damage