Tinnitus is sometimes the first sign of hearing loss in older people. It also can be a side effect of medications. More than 200 drugs are known to cause tinnitus when you start or stop taking them.
Vulcan's oldest shrine in Rome, called the Vulcanal, was situated at the foot of the Capitoline in the Forum Romanum, and was reputed to date to the archaic period of the kings of Rome, and to have been established on the site by Titus Tatius, the Sabine co-king, with a traditional date in the 8th century BCE.
Once in the thalamus, the secondary afferents synapse in a thalamic nucleus called the ventrolateral posterior nucleus (VPL). The thalamocortical afferents (from thalamus to cortex) travel up through the internal capsule to get to primary somatosensory cortex, the end of the pathway. Primary somatosensory cortex is located in the post-central gyrus, which is the fold of cortex just posterior to the central sulcus.