Testing Glosspharyngeal Vagus

Technical Notes

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• Eliminate visual, auditory clues
• Avoid aromatic or irritating stimuli that may give non-olfactory stimulus and response
• Ask: "What do you smell?" or with patient's eyes closed ask patient to signal when he/she smells the stimulus

 Links to Glosspharyngeal Vagus information

 Causes of Glosspharyngeal Vagus

• Anatomy of olfaction

• Smoking

• Traumatic anosmia

• Meningioma of olfactory groove