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 lobe
Uncus, hippocampus, frontal lobe
Olfactory Nucleus
Olfactory Bulb
Olfactory Bulb
Foramen
Cribriform plate
Cribriform plate
Olfactory Receptor Nuclei
Osmoreceptors within nasal mucosa
Osmoreceptors within nasal mucosa
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