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One sentence: The olfactory nerve is the afferent nerve for the sense of smell (it is the only CN where the afferents into the brain do not reach the brain via the thalamus) (Fig. 5.1).
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Grisold, W., Struhal, W., Grisold, A. (2023). Cranial Nerve I: Olfactory Nerve. In: The Cranial Nerves in Neurology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43081-7_5
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