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What is cacosmia and what is its relation to deamination and nerve degeneration .and can these two conditions cause this.explain the relation with brain and mood disorders?
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Cacosmia: The imagining of unpleasant odors, particularly putrefactive odors, an unpleasant phantosmia.Psychiatric etiologies for olfactory distortion can exist with schizophrenia, alcoholic psychosis, depression and olfactory reference syndrome). Also been observed with epilepsy. This can also occur due to peripheral damage to the olfactory system.
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