Olfaction And Taste Flashcards
First symptom when first neurons are damaged
Phantosmia
Sudden feeling that you’re smelling something. Related to trauma or prior to seizure.
Uncinate fits
No sense of smell
Anosmia
Part of limbic system which is associated with memory and emotion
Olfactory bulb
Loss of smell acuity, common in normal aging, decreases apetite
Hyposmia
Located in the roof of the nasal cavity on the inferior surface of the cribriform plate and along the nasal septum and medial wall of superior turbinate
Nasal mucosa
Projections to the dorsomedial nucleus of the thalamus are relayed to the orbitofrontal cortex
Discriminative function of olfaction
Area 28
Entorhinal cortex
Association cortex for olfaction
Area 28
Situated in the anterior part of parahippocampal gyrus
Area 28
Primary olfactory cortex
Prepyriform and preamygdaloid
Secondary olfactory cortex
Area 28
Cell types in bulb and tracts
- mitral
- tufted
- pyramidal
- stellate (granule/golgi II)
Caudal expansion of olfactory tract
Olfactory trigone
Association cortex for olfaction
Area 28
Site of overlap between the limbic and olfactory system
Area 28
Becomes continuous with the diagonal band of broca and has connections to amygdaloid nuclear complex
Medial septal nucleus
Determines whether odor is pleasant or unpleasant
Limbic system
Three pathways of olfaction
- via medial forebrain bundle (most primitive)
- via stria medullaris
- via limbic system
Contains receptor for smell
Olfactory mucosa