News tagged with facial abnormalities


Study: Women look away more from abnormal babies

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jun 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(AP) -- Puzzling new research suggests women have a harder time than men looking at babies with facial birth defects. It's a surprise finding. Psychiatrists from the Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital, who were studying ...





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Researchers Find Alcoholics Display Abnormal Brain Activity When Processing Facial Expressions

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Aug 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have found that individuals who have a long history of alcoholism, but who have been abstinent for at least a month up to many years, showed abnormal ...


Researchers Study Facial Structures, Brain Abnormalities to Reveal Formula for Earlier Detection of Autism

Researchers Study Facial Structures, Brain Abnormalities to Reveal Formula for Earlier Detection of Autism

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 18, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Recently, Harvard researchers reported that children with autism have a wide range of genetic defects, making it nearly impossible to develop a simple genetic test to identify the disorder.


Race has little effect on people's ability to spot family resemblances

Medicine & Health / Research

created Sep 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists have ample evidence that individuals use a variety of cues to identify their own kin. People can also detect resemblances in families other than their own. A new study shows that their success in doing so is the ...


Prenatal biochemical screening only detects half of chromosomal abnormalities

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Jun 02, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Prenatal biochemical screening tests are widely used to look for chromosomal abnormalities in the fetus which can lead to serious handicap, or even death during gestation or in the first few days after birth. But these tests ...


Researchers discover gene for branchio-oculo-facial syndrome

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Apr 23, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Boston, MA--In a collaborative effort, researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have discovered that deletions or mutations within the TFAP2A gene (Activating Enhancer-Binding Protein) result in the distinctive ...


Brazilians judge facial beauty differently than North Americans

Medicine & Health / Other

created Oct 04, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Standard ideals of facial beauty and harmony may differ depending on geographic location, with a specific difference between North American beauty ideals and those of Brazilians.


Alcohol consumption can cause too much cell death, fetal abnormalities

Alcohol consumption can cause too much cell death, fetal abnormalities

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 25, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The initial signs of fetal alcohol syndrome are slight but classic: facial malformations such as a flat and high upper lip, small eye openings and a short nose.


Improving security with face recognition technology

Improving security with face recognition technology

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

A number of U.S. states now use facial recognition technology when issuing drivers licenses. Similar methods are also used to grant access to buildings and to verify the identities of international travelers. ...


Frogs reveal clues about the effects of alcohol during development

Medicine & Health / Research

created Apr 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) and Fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) cause malformations in babies, including facial defects, short stature, and mental and behavioral abnormalities. The African frog, Xenopus, is a valuable ...


Intelligent system to help autistic children recognize emotions

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Computer scientists from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore are working on the development of an efficient and intelligent facial expression recognition system. The system is capable of locating the face region ...



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