Neurons in the rostral medullary raphe/parapyramidal region regulate cutaneous sympathetic nerve discharge. Using focal electrical stimulation at different dorsoventral raphe/parapyramidal sites in anesthetized rabbits, we have now demonstrated that increases in ear pinna cutaneous sympathetic nerve discharge can be elicited only from sites within 1 mm of the ventral surface of the medulla. By ...

Psychotic symptoms and disorders can emerge due to structural brain abnormalities. The septum pellucidum is one of the midline brain structures, which consists of the fusion of two thin membranes. Cavum vergae is recognized as the most severe form of fusion defect in the membranes of septum pellucidum. Although cavum vergea is reported to be common in schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders...

Introduction and Aim: Most of the lesions affecting pinna are cutaneous conditions. Those arising from cartilage extremely rare, whereas those soft tissue like vascular, stromal adnexal components relatively common. The present study aims at analysing proportion, types, categories pinna.
 Methods: Following institutional ethics committee approval, a retrospective analysis medical records 4...

Recently, Pinna nobilis pen shells population in Mediterranean Sea has plummeted due to a Mass Mortality Event caused by an haplosporidian parasite. In consequence, this bivalve species been included the IUCN Red List as “Critically Endangered”. current scenario, several works are progress protect P. from extinction, being identification of hybrids (P. x rudis) among survivors extremely importa...

Spatial audio rendering relies on accurate localization perception, which requires individual head-related transfer functions (HRTFs). Previous methods based deep neural networks (DNNs) for predicting HRTF magnitude spectra from pinna images used log-magnitude as the network output during training stage. However, HRTFs encompass acoustical characteristics of head and torso, making it challengin...