The link between suicide and anosmia

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Traumatic brain injury (TBI) can have consequences far beyond what many practitioners realize. The human sense of smell is reliant upon the proper functioning of the olfactory nerve, which meditates qualitative odor sensations and portions of the trigeminal nerve, which mediate somatosensory overtones of smells such as warmth, coolness, irritation, and sharpness. Smell receptors are located throughout the nasal respiratory epithelium, including regions of the olfactory neuroepithelium. Mucus…