Embryology and Clinical Development of the Human Olfactory System
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract The olfactory system is unique as a special sensory system in its developmental neuroanatomy and function. Neonatal olfactory reflexes can be detected in the fetus from 30 weeks gestation and can be tested in term and preterm neonates and older children. Most efferent axons from the olfactory bulb terminate in the anterior olfactory nucleus within the olfactory tract, with secondary projections to the amygdala, hypothalamus, hippocampus, and entorhinal cortex (parahippocampal gyrus), with tertiary projections also to the insula and other cortical regions. The olfactory bulb and tract incorporate an intrinsic thalamic equivalent. The olfactory bulb may be primary in generating olfactory auras in some cases of temporal lobe epilepsy. Developmental malformations may involve the olfactory bulb and tract, isolated or as part of complex cerebral malformations and genetic syndromes. Primary neural tumors may arise in the olfactory bulb or nerve. Impaired olfaction occurs in neonatal hypoxic/ischemic and some metabolic encephalopathies. Loss of sense of smell are early symptoms in some neurodegenerative diseases and in some viral respiratory diseases including coronavirus disease 2019. Testing cranial nerve I is easy and reliable at all ages, and is recommended in selected neonates with suspected brain malformations or encephalopathy.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".