The insular cortex, autonomic asymmetry and cardiovascular control: looking at the right side of stroke.

Purpose: Evidence from animal and human studies demonstrates that cortical regions play a key role in autonomic modulation with a differential role for some brain regions located in the left and right brain hemispheres. Known as autonomic asymmetry, this phenomenon has been demonstrated by clinical observations, by experimental models, and currently by combined neuroimaging and direct recordings of sympathetic nerve activity. Previous studies report peculiar autonomic-mediated cardiovascular alterations following unilateral damage to the left or right insula, a multifunctional key cortical region involved in emotional processing linked to autonomic cardiovascular control and featuring asymmetric characteristics.

Proposal of requirements for the development of a training simulator for the auditory-perceptual judgment of voice.

Purpose: to identify a set of requirements for the development of an auditory-perceptual training simulator (APT) based on the experience of professors who provide APT.

Methods: This is a cross-sectional, descriptive study with a quantitative approach. Twenty-two professors answered an online questionnaire containing 31 items related to APT, involving items about the professional profile, conditions for APT in undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Speech Therapy, APT structure, and evaluation of the APT effect.

Neurogenic Background for Emotional Stress-Associated Hypertension.

Purpose Of Review: The response to natural stressors involves both cardiac stimulation and vascular changes, primarily triggered by increases in sympathetic activity. These effects lead to immediate flow redistribution that provides metabolic support to priority target organs combined with other key physiological responses and cognitive strategies, against stressor challenges. This extremely well-orchestrated response that was developed over millions of years of evolution is presently being challenged, over a short period of time.

User satisfaction with primary health care by region in Brazil: 1st cycle of external evaluation from PMAQ-AB.

The National Program for Access and Quality Improvement in Primary Care (Programa Nacional de Melhoria do Acesso e da Qualidade da Atenção Básica, PMAQ-AB) aimed to improve healthcare public service quality and satisfaction of health service users. This study's objective was to identify the main factors influencing user satisfaction with primary care (PC) services by region in Brazil. Using secondary data from the 1st Cycle of PMAQ-AB, logistic regression models were developed by region, with user satisfaction as the dependent variable, as defined by cluster analysis.

Factors associated with user satisfaction regarding treatment offered in Brazilian primary health care.

The Program for Access and Quality Improvement in Primary Care (PMAQ-AB) aimed to improve healthcare public service quality. The purpose of this study was to identify the main factors that influence user satisfaction in Brazilian primary health care services. This research was carried out using secondary data from the first cycle of the PMAQ-AB.

Development and evaluation of a simulator of invasive procedures in pediatric bone marrow transplant.

In the past we proposed the development of a bone marrow harvest simulator to support the learning of this procedure. This work presents some aspects of this development and shows the results and analysis of the simulator after its first evaluation.

Online training evaluation in VR simulators using Gaussian Mixture Models.

A new approach to evaluate training in simulators based on virtual reality is proposed. This approach uses Gaussian Mixture Models (GMM) for modeling and classification of the simulation in pre-defined classes of training.