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If you’re what media savants call an “efferent reader,” looking for the efficient take-away, his approach will drive you bonkers.

Then, efferent nerves rapidly carry muscle-control signals back to the hand.

Honda, Y. & Ishizuka, N. Organization of connectivity of the rat presubiculum: I. efferent projections to the medial entorhinal cortex.

Meibach, R. C. & Siegel, A. Efferent connections of the hippocampal formation in the rat.

Matt Present points to the whiteboard, where the 12 cranial nerves are drawn in blue and red with a Sharpie, labeled by a roman numeral and a letter: S, for afferent sensory nerves, which send signals to the brain; M, for efferent motor nerves, which carry messages from the brain; and B, for nerves that do both.