Natural environment statistics in the upper and lower visual field are reflected in mouse retinal specializations.

Pressures for survival make sensory circuits adapted to a species' natural habitat and its behavioral challenges. Thus, to advance our understanding of the visual system, it is essential to consider an animal's specific visual environment by capturing natural scenes, characterizing their statistical regularities, and using them to probe visual computations. Mice, a prominent visual system model, have salient visual specializations, being dichromatic with enhanced sensitivity to green and UV in the dorsal and ventral retina, respectively.

Vision: How Mice Control Their View.

Across vertebrates, eye movements serve the dual purpose of image stabilization during head or body movement, and gaze relocation. A new study has measured head and bilateral eye movements in freely moving mice, providing a detailed characterization of dynamic gaze behavior.

Estimation of self-motion duration and distance in rodents.

Spatial orientation and navigation rely on information about landmarks and self-motion cues gained from multi-sensory sources. In this study, we focused on self-motion and examined the capability of rodents to extract and make use of information about own movement, i.e.

Structured feedback from referring physicians: a novel approach to quality improvement in radiology reporting.

Objective: There is considerable interest in improving radiology reporting practices through peer review, and the inclusion of structured feedback from referring physicians may improve this process. The purpose of this article is to evaluate the feasibility of this type of novel peer-review system.

Materials And Methods: Five referring physicians from our institution participated as reviewers.

[Adenosquamous carcinoma of the palate].

A rare case of adenosquamous carcinoma in a 74 year-old man is reported. Presenting as a nodule on the soft palate, diagnosis was prolonged because of the benign macroscopic aspect. CT-scan and MR-tomography showed an encapsulated lesion but biopsy and histologic examination revealed the typical features of adenosquamous carcinoma.