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I can smell but i cannot taste. i thought they were connected if you could smell you could taste what is going on? is it in my brain the problem?
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Unusual, has answers: Smell is carried by cranial nerve 1. Taste is carried by cranial nerves 7,9,10 (and some branches of 5). Smell ends up more in the frontal lobe, taste more in the insula (lateral). Most of taste is related to smell (loosing smell blunts taste a lot), not vice versa. Need evaluation for types of taste loss (separates CN 7,9,10) and other findings. Depending on history, MRI scan may be needed.
Answered 6/10/2014
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