Overview
Role
- Special sensory (smell).
Olfactory Nerve Palsy
Abnormality
- Anosmia.
Causes of Olfactory Nerve Palsy
- Trauma - coup / contrecoup
- Frontal lobe - trauma, ischaemia, tumour
- Meningitis
- Neurosyphillis
Pathway
- Processing / Association Centres
Uncus, hippocampus, frontal lobeOlfactory Nucleus
Olfactory BulbForamen
Cribriform plateOlfactory Receptor Nuclei
Osmoreceptors within nasal mucosa
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