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Richard L. Doty, PhD

Professor of Psychology in Otorhinolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery

  • Director, Smell and Taste Center, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center

Department: Otorhinolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery


Contact Information

Smell & Taste Center
www.med.upenn.edu/stc
University of Pennsylvania Medical Center
5th Floor Ravdin
3400 Spruce ST.


Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: 215-662-2797
Email: richard.doty@uphs.upenn.edu


I3H Keywords

  • Allergy, Asthma, and Other Inflammatory Diseases
  • Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy

Education


  • Whitworth College, Spokane, Washington, 1963

  • University of Denver, Denver, Colorado, 1964
  • B.S. (Psychology/Biology)
    Colorado State University, 1966
  • M.A. (Experimental Psychology: Psychophysics)
    California State University, San Jose, in conjunction with Nat'l Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA), 1968
  • Ph.D. (Comparative Psychology/Zoology)
    Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, 1971

Post-Graduate Training

  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Behavioral Endocrinology, (Advisor: Dr. Frank Beach)
    University of California, Berkeley, California , 1971 - 1973
  • Postdoctoral Fellow
    Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania , 1973 - 1974

Description of ITMAT Expertise

Olfaction, taste, neural reflexes relative to neurodegenerative diseases

Selected Publications

  • Doty, R.L. : Olfactory dysfunction in neurodegenerative diseases: is there a common pathological substrate? Lancet Neurology 16(6) : 478-488, June 2017
  • Doty, R.L., Heidt, J.M., MacGillivray, M.R., Dsouza, M., Tracey, E.H., Mirza, N., and Bigelow, D. : Influences of age, tongue region, and chorda tympani nerve sectioning on signal detection measures of lingual taste sensitivity. Physiology & Behavior 155 : 202-207, 2016
  • Liu, G., Zong, G., Doty, R.L., and Sun, Q. : Prevalence and risk factors of taste and smell impairment in a nation-wide representative U.S. population. BMJ Open 6(11) November 2016
  • Doty, R.L., Tourbier, I.A., Pham, D.L., Cuzzocreo, J.L., Udupa, J.K., Karacali, B., Beals, E., Fabius, L., Leon-Sarmiento, F.E., Moonis, G., Geckle, R.J., and Yousem, D.M. : Taste dysfunction in multiple sclerosis. Journal of Neurology 2016
  • Doty, R.L., and Bromley, S.M. : Smell and taste disorders Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine 19th Edition : 211-217, 2015
  • Doty, R.L. : Neurotoxic exposure and alterations in olfaction and gustation Handbook of Clinical Neurology 131 : 299-324, 2015
  • Doty, R.L., Tourbier, I.A., Ng, V., Armstrong, D., Battistini, M., Sammel, M.D., Gettes, D., Evans, D., Moberg, P.J., Connolly, T., and Sondheimer, S. : Influences of hormone replacement therapy on olfactory and cognitive function in the menopause. Neurobiology of Aging 36 : 2053-2059, 2015
  • Doty, R.L., Nsoesie, M.T., Chung, I., Osman, A., Pawasarat, I., Hurtig, H., Silas, J., Tekeli, H., Duda, J.E., Ying, G-S., Dubroff, J., and Leon-Sarmiento, F.E. : Taste function in early stage treated and untreated Parkinson's disease. Journal of Neurology 262 : 547-557, 2015
  • Doty, R.L. (Ed.) : Handbook of Olfaction and Gustation. Third Edition. Book 2015
  • Doty, R.L., Tourbier, I.A., Davis, S., Rotz, J., Cuzzocreo, J.L., Treems, J., Shephard, N., Pham, D.I. : Pure-tone auditory thresholds in multiple sclerosis. Behavioral Neuroscience 126 : 314-324, 2012
  • Leon-Sarmiento, F.E., Bayona, E.A., Bayone-Prieto, J., Osman, A., & Doty, R.L. : Profound Olfactory Dysfunction in Myasthenia Gravis. PLoS One 7(10) October 2012
  • Lewkowitz-Shpuntoff, H.A., Hughes, V.A., Plummer, L., Au, M.G., Doty, R.L., Seminara, S.B., Chan, Y., Pitteloud, N., Crowley, W.F., & Balasabramanian, R. : Olfactory phenotypic spectrum in idiopathic hypogonadotropic hypogonadism: pathophysiologic and genetic implications. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism 97 : E136-E144, 2012
  • Tracey, E., Greene, A. & Doty, R.L. : Optimizing reliability and sensitivity of Semmes-Weinstein monofilaments for establishing point tactile thresholds. Physiology & Behavior 105 : 982-986, 2012
  • Devanand, D.P., Lee, S., Manly, J., Andrews, H., Schupf, N., Doty, R.L., Stern, Y., Zahodne, L., Louis, E.D., and Mayeux, R. : Olfactory deficits predict cognitive decline and Alzheimer's disease in an urban community. Neurology 138 : 182-189, 2015
  • Devanand, D.P., Lee, S., Manly, J., Andrews, H., Schupf, N., Masurkar, A., Stern, Y., Mayeux, R., and Doty, R.L. : Olfactory identification deficits are associated with increased mortality in a multiethnic urban community. Annals of Neurology 78 : 401-411, 2015
  • Doty, R.L., Gandhi, S.S., Osman, A., Hurtig, H.I., Pawasarat, I., Beals, E., Dubroff, J., Newberg, A., Ying, G.S., and Leon-Sarmiento, F.E. : Influence of early stage Parkinson's disease on point pressure sensitivity. Physiology and Behavior 138 : 21-27, 2015
  • Sharer, J.D., Leon-Sarmiento, F.E., Morley, J.F., Weintraub, D., and Doty, R.L. : Olfactory dysfunction in Parkinson's disease: Positive effect of cigarette smoking. Movement Disorders 30 : 859-862, 2015
  • Doty, R.L. : Olfaction in Parkinson's disease and related disorders. Neurobiology of Disease 46 : 527-552, 2012
  • Doty, R.L. : Olfactory dysfunction in Parkinson's disease. Nature Reviews Neurology 8 : 329-339, 2012
  • Prediger, R.D.S., Aguiar, A.S., Matheus, F.C., Walz, R., Antoury, L., and Raisman-Vozari, R., and Doty, R.L., : Intranasal administration of neurotoxicants in animals: Support for the olfactory vector hypothesis of Parkinson's disease. Neurotoxicology Research 21 : 90-116, 2012
  • Doty, R.L. : Smell and the degenerating brain The Scientist 27 : 33-37, 2013
  • Doty, R. L., and Kamath, V. : The influences of age on olfaction: a review. Frontiers in Psychology -- Cognitive Science 5:20 2014
  • Doty, R.L. : The Great Pheromone Myth. Book 2010